by Darin Stewart | May 13, 2013 | 1 Comment
In recent years large, data-centric vendors acquired smaller enterprise search companies at an astonishing rate. Oracle purchased Endeca. IBM purchased Vivisimo. Hewlett-Packard purchased Autonomy. Microsoft purchased FAST. There is a reason for this feeding frenzy of corporate acquisitions. Big Data is the current killer application and search provides a ready entry into the Big [...]
Category: Big Content Enterprise Content Managment search Tags: Big Content, Big Data, Metadata, Search
by Darin Stewart | May 1, 2013 | 4 Comments
The age of information overload is slowly drawing to a close. The enterprise is finally getting comfortable with managing massive amounts of data, content and information. The pace of information creation continues to accelerate, but the ability of infrastructure and information management to keep pace is coming within sight. Big data is now considered a [...]
Category: Big Content Enterprise Content Managment Open Data search Tags: Big Content, Big Data, ECM, Search
by Darin Stewart | May 17, 2012 | 2 Comments
Google is about to get a whole lot more useful. Yesterday, the search titan announced the “Knowledge Graph” a functional enhancement that attempts to provide actual information about the subject of your query rather than just a list of links. This might be helpful, but the really interesting bit is the part about the graph. [...]
Category: Knowledge Management search Semantic Web Tags: google, knowledge graph, linked data, linked open data, semantic web
by Darin Stewart | January 4, 2012 | 1 Comment
At a time when technology should be broadening our information and knowledge, it may in fact be narrowing our minds. Attention management is becoming an instinctive self-preservation behavior. We don’t have the time and energy (nor the interest) to read and evaluate everything presented about every issue. So we filter. Whether we admit it or [...]
Category: search Social Computing Tags: Social Computing, social search
