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Friday, November 20, 2009 3:39 PM

The Search Developer Story in SharePoint 2010 - Query Interfaces

SharePoint 2010 includes a number of features that make the platform easier to use for developers. An improved Visual Studio integration, the addition of LINQ to the SharePoint platform, sandboxing for deployment, and the new developer dashboard are just
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Monday, November 09, 2009 6:56 PM

Enterprise Search and Bing Services – Part 2: Bing Geo-coding Structured/Unstructured Text for Search

Web-based mapping services from Microsoft and others have been around for a number of years, but all are naturally dependent on data that contains well defined geo-coordinate information – usually latitude and longitude pairs. But what if you have content
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 2:22 AM

FAST meets SharePoint - What's Coming in Search for SharePoint 2010

Last week was the 2009 SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas. The sold-out attendance of 7400 doubled the number from the previous SharePoint conference 1 ½ years ago. This is not too surprising given the incredible momentum of SharePoint and the fact that
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:53 PM

Enterprise Search and Bing Services – Part 1: The Bing Translator

(In May of this year, Microsoft launched its Bing search service for the Web. While Bing has shown steady growth in the Web search market, it’s not well known that Bing also includes a collection of services that can be accessed programmatically to enhance
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Monday, September 14, 2009 7:30 PM

Searching for Virtue - Virtuous Cycles as a Model for Successful Search Implementations

I like design patterns. I like the idea that there are right ways to do things and wrong ways (anti-patterns). Of course I understand that the world is not so black and white, but collecting and cataloging the collected wisdom of what works and what doesn’t
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Friday, August 28, 2009 1:26 AM

Coping with Hype in Enterprise Search Marketing

Not long ago, I was invited to participate at a customer’s annual conference. It was an amazing experience. I’ve been to conferences of all sorts, but I confess I’ve never attended an event quite like this one. Let’s just say that I’m used to.. well…
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 7:17 PM

A Focus on Search User Experience

It’s happening… slowly … but it’s happening. Attention in search is finally shifting from a focus on low-level features and relevancy models to looking at the whole user experience for information access. I, for one, am very glad to see this trend. Of
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 2:56 AM

Observations from the Text Analytics Summit 2009

One of the hard parts about organizing a conference like the 5 th annual Text Analytics Summit , held last week in Boston, must be selecting the industry case studies. Text analytics is a highly specialized, but broad reaching topic that has applications
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Friday, May 22, 2009 9:02 PM

Thinking Big – Search Scale and Performance on a Budget

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
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 10:45 PM

Actionable Search – From What to Why?

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
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Sunday, May 03, 2009 5:47 PM

Search and Natural User Interfaces - Part 2

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
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Monday, April 27, 2009 5:08 PM

Search and Natural User Interfaces (NUIs) - Part 1

About five years ago or so, I participated in a conference panel where the question was asked: “What will search interfaces look like 20 years from now?”. I had just seen Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi film “Minority Report” starring Tom Cruise, so I referred
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Friday, April 17, 2009 11:49 PM

One Year with Microsoft – a FAST Perspective

After years of writing customer proposals, internal memoranda, and various stuffily formal documents, it feels like a luxury to be able to just write what I think about enterprise search. It’s actually part of my job these days and I’m looking forward
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Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:31 PM

Microsoft Presents FAST forward 09: Engage Your User

The Mirage, Las Vegas, Feb 9-11 Since its inaugural conference in 2006, FAST forward has been a venue for though leadership and innovation in the field of search. This year, FAST forward’09 is the industry’s largest business and technology conference
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 2:33 PM

Microsoft positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2008 Information Access Magic Quadrant

We’ve got great news to share! Last month, Gartner published the 2008 Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology, and Microsoft was positioned in the Leaders Quadrant. Since the completion of the acquisition, we’ve worked incredibly hard to communicate
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