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In this issue:
Feature Articles:
  • The SCOE: How Companies Organize Search
  • What's in a name: Federated Search

  • Columns:
  • Ask Dr. Search: Searching for Hex Numbers
  • What's New: ESS West, Fast bumps, Millennials...

  • Links:
  • Previous Issues and Glossary of Terms
  • From the Editor
    NIE Enterprise Search
    Volume 4 Number 4
    Summer 2007
    Miles Kehoe, Editor
    Miles Kehoe, President New Idea Engineering, Inc., 
		Editor of NIE Enterprise Search Newsletter

    Welcome to the Summer 2007 edition of Enterprise Search!

    Summer is passing quickly, and the Fall looks to be a busy time. Time to start thinking about how we can better organize for great enterprise search. Tell us about how search is organized at your company in our newest survey and we'll share the results next month.

    We hope you enjoy this issue of the newsletter, and we look forward to hearing from you any time.


    Table of contents: Summer 2007


    What's New - Summer 2007: Enterprise Search Summit moves west, Fast hits a bump, and Millennials start to impact corporate planning ...[More].

    The SCOE: How Companies Organize Search: A funny thing is happening as companies recognize the strategic importance of great enterprise search: responsibility for search is moving out of corporate libraries and IT and into marketing, product management, or a new kind of operation called a Search Center of Excellence. We've seen it happening at a number of companies, and we find it an interesting trend ...[More].

    What's in a name: Federated Search :

    With our years working with enterprise search, we've become accustomed to the lingo of the search world. In a conference not too long ago, we realized that our vocabulary was leading to confusion on the part of our very bright customer managers. At issue? What is the meaning of 'federated search'. ...[More].

    Dr. Search: Searching for Hex Numbers: When your content includes 'words' that start with numbers and includes alpha characters, K2V6 behaves differently than earlier versions. Dr. Search has an easy fix ...[More].

    Remember to send your tough search questions to Dr. Search at support@ideaeng.com.

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