Poor Data Quality Gives Enterprise Search a Bad Rap - Part 1: In September 2004, NIE's Mark Bennett presented a paper to the Silicon Valley Webguild about a well-understood problem in relational technology that has, until now, been completely ignored in enterprise search: data quality. This month and next, you can read Mark's presentation and learn why poor data quality in your enterprise search indexes may cause problems when it comes to search - and potentially to compliance. [More].

Search Term Highlighting: If you ask different people what they think "search term highlighting" means, most may not be able to define it but they will all know it when they see it. Yet your end-users are beginning to request the capability as a way to help them find why certain documents come back from a search. This month we start coverage of this hot topic with an overview. [More].

Dr. Search: : This month, Dr. Search helps you manage your Unix K2 installation from your Windows CMD tool. Remember to mail your questions to Dr. Search at support@ideaeng.com. [More].

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