Archive for January, 2010
How similar are faceted search and OLAP? See CIO Mag: 20 to Watch in 2010
by Adam Ferrari
Adam Ferrari
Endeca received a nice spot in CIO magazine’s new list, “Twenty companies to watch in 2010.” Compared with much of the coverage we get in the press, which tends to focus on one of our core market solutions such as Retail or Manufacturing, I was pleased with the breadth that CIO was able to [...]
Search is the enemy of IA
by Pete Bell
Pete Bell
The Information Architecture Institute is running an Explain IA contest, and two of the entries really got me thinking. (Disclosure: Endeca is a sponsor of the contest, but we have no influence on the outcome — all voting is done by the 1400 institute members. And this is just a blog, for pete’s sake.) [...]
Monash, are there really only three kinds of data?
by Adam Ferrari
Adam Ferrari
Is my data structured, unstructured, or semi-structured? Curt Monash provided yet another take on this never-ending data management question in a blog post earlier this week. This topic has generated tons of discussion over time, but despite this, common perceptions out there seem fairly straightforward. Basically, common wisdom holds that:
Structured data is the stuff [...]
MapReduce just semi-good for semi-structured data
by Adam Ferrari
Adam Ferrari
Sybase recently announced that it’s become the latest analytical database vendor to hop onto the MapReduce (MR) bandwagon. This trend has been ramping throughout the past year+, ignited by early innovators like Aster and Greenplum, followed fairly quickly by others such as Netezza and (somewhat surprisingly) Vertica.
One local outcome for yours truly has been [...]
How to sell out a virtual seminar
by Pete Bell
Pete Bell
I spent yesterday with Jared Spool and the team at UIE for their virtual seminar on Search and Discovery Patterns, given by the great Peter Morville and Endeca’s own Mark Burrell.
Turned out to be a hot topic — it went Avatar and sold out. (If you’ve ever heard Jared speak — and I hope [...]
Vertical stores for vertical web search?
by Adam Ferrari
Adam Ferrari
Before the holidays I made it over to MIT for a talk by Michael Stonebraker about his latest startup, Goby.com, a vertical search site focused on leisure and travel. Always up for a Stonebraker talk, I was particularly keen to see this one given the combination of elements – a true pioneer of database [...]
A look at the forest
by Vladimir Zelevinsky
Vladimir Zelevinsky
Einstein once said (and by referring to Einstein, this post instantly receives 1.21 jigawatts of respectability):
“So many people today – and even professional scientists – seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. [...] This independence created by philosophical insight is – in my opinion [...]
HCIR: Text Analytics missing piece
by Pete Bell
Pete Bell
A new research report from two anchors of IDC’s search team, Sue Feldman and Hadley Reynolds, “Text Analytics: Software’s Missing Piece?“, proposes a fresh definition of text analytics. It’s an excellent definition, but what’s surprising is that the various definitions I’ve seen proposed so far are still not converging. I think this definition [...]
Yet another search blog
by Pete Bell
Search is no longer just a search box. It’s all the ways people go about discovering information. Now search is analytics and graphs and tools that used to be just part of business intelligence. It is maps and visualizations and navigation.
And it’s not just an application feature. There’s a whole world behind the scenes. Search [...]
