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	<title>Search Facets</title>
	<link>http://facets.endeca.com</link>
	<description>The many faces of discovery</description>
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		<title>Unclassified + Unclassified = Classified</title>
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Hollywood has taught us that intelligence is secret: signal intelligence, like communications intercepts; imagery intelligence, like spy satellites; and human intelligence, like Mata Hari. But intelligence analysts say that many of their best sources aren’t secret, they’re open source (that’s “open source” as in publicly available, not as in free source code.) But feed it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://facets.endeca.com/2010/09/unclassified-unclassified-classified/</link>
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		<title>YAPL: Yet Another Pattern Library?</title>
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When I was a graduate student in Computer Science, many years ago, I was intrigued to discover the existence of a program called ‘YACC’. My curiosity was piqued not so much by the reputation of this program (for its use was widespread throughout academia), but simply the name: the acronym stood for ‘Yet Another Compiler [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://facets.endeca.com/2010/08/yapl-yet-another-pattern-library/</link>
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		<title>Interview: Are Search Engines and Libraries Competitors?</title>
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Interviewer Brett Bonfield pulls off a tough balancing act in a new conversation with me and the founder of the web search engine DuckDuckGo, Gabe Weinberg: How do you ask the same set of questions of both a web search and search applications company? You can read the interview on the best-named library blog ever, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://facets.endeca.com/2010/08/interview-are-search-engines-and-libraries-competitors/</link>
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		<title>Visualizing Facets</title>
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Every UX designer working on faceted search and discovery applications faces a key challenge.  How to present facets that instantly tell users:

What&#8217;s available within the collection or information space?
Which actions will help users meet their goals?

To meet this challenge, faceted user interfaces need to summarize the information space in a readily comprehensible way and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://facets.endeca.com/2010/08/visualizing-facets/</link>
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		<title>TEDxBoston: The Future Of Search vs. Seeing The Future With Search</title>
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TEDx conferences, the local offshoots of TED, are more experimental in format than the classic TED talk. An innovation of TEDxBoston is the &#8220;Adventure&#8221; &#8212; an immersive trip that puts the big ideas of TED into the context of a physical location. This year, there were nearly two dozen, including a tour of Dean Kamen&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://facets.endeca.com/2010/07/tedxboston-the-future-of-search-vs-seeing-the-future-with-search/</link>
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		<title>Introducing the Endeca User Interface Design Pattern Library</title>
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 Our UX team at Endeca gets a steady stream of questions about how to design effective search and discovery experiences. Just some of our FAQs:

“What’s the best way to handle faceted      bread crumbs?”
“How should we present faceted      navigation?”
“How should we present results [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://facets.endeca.com/2010/07/introducing-the-endeca-user-interface-design-pattern-library/</link>
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		<title>QlikTech’s IPO &amp; Vigilante BI</title>
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We&#8217;re often asked about how Endeca&#8217;s BI offering compares to QlikView &#8212; more than usual with their “heavily oversubscribed” IPO this morning of their parent company QlikTech (QLIK).
The comparisons aren&#8217;t surprising. If you read their S-1 IPO filing, you&#8217;ll find spots where you could cut-and-paste &#8220;Endeca&#8221; for &#8220;QlikView.&#8221; For example,
“We have pioneered a powerful, easy-to-use [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://facets.endeca.com/2010/07/qliktech%e2%80%99s-ipo-vigilante-bi/</link>
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		<title>Listening to the Customers&#8217; Story</title>
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My favorite part of the Endeca year just started with our sixth annual call for Navigator Award nominations, recognizing the most visionary Endeca deployments. What’s most fascinating to me about the awards is hearing our customers tell their stories in their own words.
We have our own narratives about each facet of the Endeca story. For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://facets.endeca.com/2010/07/listening-to-the-customers-story/</link>
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		<title>Hadoop + Hive + Endeca, Spotted in the Wild</title>
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In his post MapReduce just semi-good for semi-structured data, Adam  Ferrari answered one of his FAQs about the relationship between Endeca and MapReduce, the popular big data cruncher. Now here’s one example of them complementing each other.
The question Adam answered was, if MapReduce is so powerful for processing big data, then what role does [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://facets.endeca.com/2010/06/hadoop-hive-endeca-spotted-in-the-wild/</link>
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		<title>Bring Back the Dead Ends</title>
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There&#8217;s still so much room for innovation on faceted search user experiences. Here&#8217;s a great improvement that&#8217;s still rarely seen in the wild: graying out dead ends instead of removing them. &#8220;Gray ends&#8221; are just for certain cases, but in those conditions, they make a big difference. Moreover, they exemplify one of the great Edward [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://facets.endeca.com/2010/06/bring-back-the-dead-ends/</link>
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