The Art and Science of Query Cooking: Pre-processing user queries before they are sent to your search engine is one way to impact the way your engine ranks documents. This process, called "query cooking" by those in the know, combines art and science to customize how relevance is important to your site. This article, written by Kepler Gelotte of Raritan Technologies, focuses query cooking with examples using the Verity Query Language found in K2. [More].

Top Tips for Enterprise Search: It's not easy being the person responsible for enterprise search within an organization. It takes technical expertise, the ability to devine the answers your users want to questions they don't know how to ask, and a good, thick skin. And it helps to have an understanding manager for when some Vice President comes by and asks "Why isn't our search as good as Google?" Here are a few tips to help you survive - and give good search! [More].

Waht's New - July/August 2005: This month,we have the scoop on the new IBM search and text analsis tools, some upcomign trade shows, and FREE Ultraseek for another new weeks!. [More].

Dr. Search: This month, Dr. Search explains how to recover when you lose your password and cannot log onto the K2 console. Contact Dr. Search with your questions at support@ideaeng.com. [More].

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