by Whit Andrews | July 2, 2009 | Comments Off
Yesterday, California joined the orderly progression toward more formalized e-discovery rules via an instant law Gov. Arnold Schwarznegger signed without apparent fanfare. You’ll find a substantial amount of excellent research we’ve written about e-discovery on Gartner.com. The first pieces are from 2005 and there’s more than 60 as of now to read (if you read [...]
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by Whit Andrews | July 2, 2009 | Comments Off
Microsoft indicated yesterday it has added some of Twitter to to its Bing search index. I got called a week or so ago by a reporter at a sizeable magazine who wanted to talk “real-time search,” and I admit I stumbled doing the math on the topic. I do remember when Google’s indexing was so [...]
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by Whit Andrews | July 1, 2009 | 1 Comment
Great news organizations (and lesser ones) have frequently created the role of ombudsman to serve the people who otherwise might not be heard by a giant media power. Such a role serves as a voice for the people to a putative voice of the people. When a media organization is extremely powerful, ombudsman offices temper [...]
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by Whit Andrews | June 29, 2009 | Comments Off
It was back in something like 1999 that I saw Bill Nguyen for the last time (he’s not dead, but running Lala — I just ain’t seen him in a while). Bill was running Onebox.com at the time, which was a different company from the current Onebox.com, about which I know nothing. What I had [...]
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by Whit Andrews | June 19, 2009 | Comments Off
If Bing does nothing else but boost the ampage around “conversational” search, it will be enough of a victory for me to be delighted it’s there. This blog entry detailing a Google exec’s gracious consideration of the search newcomer’s strength is delightful, and even lacks what would have been the justifiable reflection that Google, with [...]
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by Whit Andrews | June 18, 2009 | Comments Off
I saw this jump-and-take-notice blog entry via my colleague Jim Lundy. There’s a bug in Google Apps Synch that causes problems for Microsoft’s desktop search client. Desktop search from Microsoft has been OK in early generations, and in my experience with clients it’s frequently selected as a corporate standard when companies want desktop search but [...]
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by Whit Andrews | June 6, 2009 | Comments Off
I’ve been busy this week (while you, doubtless, lounge on a fainting couch and nibble chewy bits of fruit dipped in syrup and dredged in nonpareils) and so have Allen Weiner and Andrew Frank. Our research note on the launch of Bing shipped last week. It’s got good points, one of which is that without [...]
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by Whit Andrews | June 3, 2009 | 4 Comments
When WolframAlpha hit the media, we got a flurry of inquiry about it from Advanced Technology groups and investors. People wanted to know: Google killer? IBM killer? Yahoo killer? We said, we don’t know, really, we gotta see it work. (Luckily, at the time at least, all I covered was enterprise search, so I could [...]
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by Whit Andrews | June 2, 2009 | 1 Comment
I noted recently that Big Launches are No Man’s Friend. On the other hand, though, the next day I got a taste of why they still happen and developed a handy conspiracy theory to go with it. So, I was talking to the folks at SimplyBox Tuesday. They briefed me and a colleague who write [...]
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by Whit Andrews | June 2, 2009 | 6 Comments
OK, campers, here’s my PostSecret: I blew off the Netscape keynote when they announced Constellation. Thanks to flickr’s termie for the image. Now you know. Well, you know what my secret is. I bet a lot of you — even most of you — are sitting there right now asking yourselves, “Why did I click [...]
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