Lucidworks’ new feature promises enhanced internal site search customization
Aims to enable retailers to optimize site search without having to call on IT.
Topic: Enterprise search
Bing for business helps organizations search smarter
Bing for business has launched a preview of new search features designed for internal organization search. Here is a quick overview.
Google to sunset Google Site Search by end of 2017
Google is telling their Site Search customers they have to find a new internal search engine service.
Google Commerce Search Is On The Chopping Block
Despite attracting several high-profile retailers, it seems Google is quietly shuttering Commerce Search. TechCrunch reported that the company is moving away from its hosted enterprise search product in favor of lighter (and less expensive) solutions. “We are making a strategy shift towards offering more flexible, easier to adopt modules for retailers, such as the Search […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 12, 2012
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: VP Debate Spurs Searches Like “Shirtless” (Ryan), “Laughing” (Biden) & Other “Malarkey” There’s a kind of Pavlovian response that happens with major national events in the U.S. (and probably elsewhere): internet […]
New Google Search Appliance Goes “From Cloud To Ground”
Google is introducing what it calls “Cloud Connect” for its enterprise Google Search Appliance. The new functionality “lets workers search across both on-premise and cloud-based content from a single search box, delivering more comprehensive results and improving productivity.” Accordingly the new “Cloud Connect” brings together Google Docs/Apps with web content and other internal company documents. […]
Google Launches “Commerce Search 2.0”
Google has upgraded its “commerce search” offering for retailers, e-commerce sites and manufacturers. Commerce search is a product of the enterprise search team and version 1.0 launched roughly six months ago. Commerce Search 2.0 has more features and the price has been cut in half from $50,000 per year to $25,000 to drive more adoption. […]
Microsoft Beefs Up Enterprise Search
Microsoft bought FAST Search & Transfer almost exactly a year ago. Now Microsoft is starting to integrate FAST’s capabilities into its other products and to market FAST more aggressively: FAST Search for SharePoint, a new search server that will add the high-end search capabilities of FAST ESP into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, will be available […]
Search Biz: Guerilla Artists Protest Google, Search Tops Online Spending Categories, Google Potentially Moving Mini To The Cloud, Predictions About Google Consumer Marketing
Other than discussion of online advertising revenues, it’s an all-Google day for Search Biz: rumors of Google Mini being replaced by a hosted solution, a “public art” protest about Google doing business with the Chinese government, and speculation about the future of consumer marketing at Google.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 17, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Search Biz: Google Pays More For DoubleClick, Benefits More From Online Ad Shift, AOL’s Platform A Coming Together, & More
Last week, as you know, the EU gave approval to Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick for $3.1 billion. However, the deal closed at $3.24 billion, a mere $140 million more. But Google doesn’t have to count its pennies during this recession, the company says, because its international growth, specifically in China-Asia, will help insulate the search […]
Microsoft To Buy Fast Search For $1.23 Billion
Microsoft Agrees to Buy Fast Search for $1.23 Billion from Bloomberg reports that Microsoft is buying FAST Search. The Norwegian search company, Fast Search & Transfer ASA, will be bought by Microsoft for 6.6 billion kroner, or $1.23 billion. Microsoft will buy the company via the Oslo Stock Exchange, share by share. Here is the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 30, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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 has positioned itself as a […]
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 owns (and I believe Blinkx […]
Q&A With François Bourdoncle, CEO Of Exalead
Exalead is one of those great search engines that most people haven’t heard of. And that’s a shame, because it offers some really powerful and unique features that most information professionals love. Exalead is also the name of an enterprise search company, co-founded by today’s Q&A participant, François Bourdoncle. Working on web technologies from the […]
FAST Introduces Private-Label Contextual Ad System
Enterprise search firm FAST has launched AdMomentum, a contextual advertising system that let’s publishers manage and serve their own advertisements, bypassing Google, Yahoo and other third-party contextual advertising services. FAST calls the platform a “revenue engine,” and is targeting small & medium sized enterprises and vertical search sites. “The major ad networks have not been […]
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 they are announced. I will […]
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 and Portuguese for query stemming […]
Survey: General Search Fails Professionals
Convera, an enterprise search company, commissioned an online survey of 1,000 U.S. “professionals” in publishing, advertising, marketing, healthcare, finance and government. The survey sought to determine work-related search behavior and corresponding satisfaction levels. While sponsored research must always be regarded with a critical eye, the results are worth noting:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Dec. 13, 2006
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
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 here). Google’s enterprise search solutions cost […]