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What's New: June 2007

Volume 4 Number 1 - June 2007


Searchnomics Conference June 28 in Santa Clara, California

The Silicon Valley Webguild is organizing the first Searchnomics Conference in Santa Clara California Thursday June 28. While the focus of the show is primarily on web search, SEO, and web analytics, much of the information is relevant for enterprise search managers as well. You can receive a $200 discount by entering NIE in the 'Referred by" field when you register at http://www.webguild.org/user/registrationpro.php?retURL=/user/myspace.php. We're told that the payment system will charge your credit card the full amount, but Searchnomics will credit your account within 48 hours.


Give us your search data

New Idea Engineering is conducting a review of enterprise search analytics and we need your data! We'll be happy to sign your company non-disclosure, but we'd lie to gather as many search logs from as many companies as we can for our study. Contact us or call us at 408-446-3460 to learn more.


Enterprise Search Summit moves west

Information Today will be holding a West Coast version of its popular this November in San Jose, California. The New York show has been a great place to meet vendors, hear industry luminaries speak, and talk with people in companies large and small who are trying to solve issues with search. We'll provide more information as we get closer to the show.


Xerox back in the enterprise search space

Xerox has announced the introduction of FactSpotter, which it bills as "new document search software that goes beyond conventional "keyword" search, enabling it, in effect, to spot the one or two golden nuggets among the pebbles on the shore".

We've seen a move towards "fact extraction" by leading search players for the last year or so; and while Xerox may have some interesting technology (think InXight), they may find the enterprise search space more competitive than it was 10 years ago. Stay tuned.


Autonomy's Mike Lynch Predicted It

In the "hindsight" department, we acknowledge that we missed Mike Lynch in FT in April of 2006 predicting that "Simple keyword search will probably be free by the end of 2006". In an article about Google's push into the enterprise search space, Mike is quoted as saying about the low end of the search market:

"We don't compete in that space... It is a bloodbath down there. Simple keyword search technology will probably be free by the end of the year.

Kudos for his call!


Vivisimo's Clusty goes Mobile

Vivisimo, a leading provider of search software and expertise, announced that its popular Web search site, Clusty.com, has been optimized for mobile devices. Coming on the heels of Vivisimo's recent announcement of Velocity for Mobile enterprise search application, Clusty Mobile simplifies mobile Web searching with increased navigational capabilities and featured sources of the most common searches performed by mobile users.


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