Site & Enterprise Search
Jul. 17, 2007 at 12:01am by Chris Sherman
Google Launches Custom Search Business Edition
Google has announced a beefed-up version of Google Custom Search, a site search product aimed at small and medium sized businesses. The new service is hosted by Google and offers all of the same functionality of the free Google Custom Search product, with a few key differences:...
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Jul. 5, 2007 at 9:17am by Greg Sterling
FAST Buys Recommendations Engine AgentArts
Enterprise search provider FAST Search & Transfer has acquired personalization platform and recommendations engine AgentArts. The technology will be folded into FAST's various enterprise search offerings, which include a range of site search and monetization options for online publishers. The company also has a mobile search partnership with InfoSpace. FAST...
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May. 24, 2007 at 9:48am by Greg Sterling
Inform To Power Site Search, Content Aggregation For Major Publishers
According to the Wall Street Journal (subscription required), "Inform Technologies LLC, which is based in New York, said 16 online publications plan to include its new search function. Among them are WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive's Newsweek.com and Conde Nast's Portfolio.com."...
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May. 16, 2007 at 3:54pm by Chris Sherman
Feds Spur Demand For Enterprise Info-Discovery Tools
Corporate spending for electronic-discovery services, estimated at roughly $1.77 billion in 2006, is expected to increase by more than a third to $2.42 billion this year, according to the Wall Street Journal. The reason? New Federal Rules of Civil Procedure passed by Congresss that are accelerating deadlines for companies to...
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Apr. 30, 2007 at 9:51am by Danny Sullivan
Reuters Buys Search Mining Tech; Former AOL Search Chief Campbell To Lead New Search Group
Via PaidContent, news that Reuters is to acquire text analytics company Clearforest, part of creating a new strategic group around search. Leading that group is Gerry Campbell, the former long-time head of AOL's search efforts: As part of its drive into this space, it has created a new strategic group...
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Apr. 25, 2007 at 8:43am by Danny Sullivan
Autonomy To Reclaim Blinkx, Then Spin It Off
The relationship between enterprise search company Autonomy and video search company Blinkx has always been confusing. PaidContent.org now reports that the "weirdly secretive relationship" (I agree) is getting clearer. Autonomy is to exercise an option to take over Blinkx, then appears to be spinning some consumer-facing search technology that its...
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Jan. 31, 2007 at 6:00pm by Chris Sherman
Q&A With Stephen Baker, CEO Of Reed Business Search
Reed Elsevier is one of the largest, most influential publishers in the world, a powerhouse in the science and medical, legal, education and business markets. But the company also has a major online presence, with more than 1,000 web sites in just its business group. Last year, Reed Business...
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Jan. 30, 2007 at 8:26am by Barry Schwartz
Google Releases New Google Enterprise Search Application
News.com reports that Google is expected to release a new upgraded version of their Google Enterprise Search Appliances today. The new Google Mini will "enable companies to perform searches on intranets as well as internal business applications." The search boxes are expected to be available for purchase as soon as...
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Jan. 5, 2007 at 9:20am by Barry Schwartz
New Features Added To Google's Enterprise Search Appliance
A Google press release from yesterday announced that Google has added a few features to the Google Search Appliance. The new features clearly labeled include: Clustering of the results Source Biasing Options - define which sources are more authoritative than others Add languages such as French, Italian, German and Spanish...
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Dec. 13, 2006 at 8:07am by Danny Sullivan
IBM & Yahoo To Offer Free Enterprise Search
IBM and Yahoo double team Google from Reuters covers how IBM and Yahoo are to offer free enterprise search to businesses. The story talks about this as a challenge to Google and others, but Google remains itself very much a challenger in the enterprise search space (see here and...
