May 2009 - Posts

Thinking Big – Search Scale and Performance on a Budget
22 May 09 09:02 PM | ntreloar | 3 Comments   

I recently came across Paul Nelson’s informative post on search scalability . I don’t know how long it’s been up there, but reading it made me think of customers I’ve spoken with recently who are looking to scale up their search deployments, but, due Read More...

Actionable Search – From What to Why?
12 May 09 10:45 PM | ntreloar | 1 Comments   

Day 1 at the Enterprise Search Summit in NYC is wrapping up and I’ve just listened to Lisa Denissen from Shearman & Sterling talk about Actionable Search. Actionable search is a key tenet of Microsoft’s enterprise search strategy, so it was good to Read More...

Filed under: enterprise search, actionable search

Search and Natural User Interfaces - Part 2
03 May 09 05:47 PM | ntreloar | 4 Comments   

In my first post on this subject last week, I referred to a scene in the movie “Minority Report” as a visionary example of a natural user interfaces (NUIs) and, more to the theme of this blog, a visionary example of ad hoc search within a NUI. I realize Read More...

Filed under: NUIs, natural user interfaces, FASTForward'09, Infusion Development, Microsoft Surface, EMC Consulting, enterprise search