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Adriaan Bloem, Analyst

Adriaan M. Bloem, CMS Watch analyst based in The Netherlands, covers web content management, social software, and enterprise search technologies. Before joining CMS Watch, he was an independent consultant, advising large organizations on both technical and organizational aspects of content management. Though Adriaan started out studying Law at Leiden University in the early nineties, he was more fascinated by the nascent web, and was a developer, webmaster, coordinator, and project manager for a host of legal knowledge management, e-learning, and web content management projects for the decade prior to joining CMS Watch.
Adriaan Bloem: Recent Blog Postings
A browser is a search engine? - 30-Jun-2009
Lucene can read almost anything: Lucid and ISYS team up - 30-Jun-2009
GSA6: Google Billions, Revisited - 11-Jun-2009
Google Search Appliance v6: don't believe the hype - 02-Jun-2009
Google Wave: Tsunami or Wipe Out? - 29-May-2009
Wolfram Alpha search engine: just the facts - 25-May-2009
Search, query syntax, Google and Starbucks - 20-May-2009
Search in New York next week - 06-May-2009
Vivisimo - still searching for real social marketing - 21-Apr-2009
Oracle proves the value of static web content delivery - 20-Apr-2009
Read me that file so I can index it, please - 08-Apr-2009
Searching Lucene, Solr, and the gang - 26-Mar-2009
Software versions - how strange the change from major to minor - 18-Mar-2009
Search vendor SurfRay back in business - 15-Mar-2009
Exalead BI aspirations demystified - slightly - 13-Mar-2009
Omniture SiteSearch has Atomz core - 10-Mar-2009
Dutch government consolidating websites on Hippo CMS 7 - 10-Mar-2009
Microsoft discloses plans for FAST ESP - 10-Feb-2009
Search vendor SurfRay in liquidation - 10-Feb-2009
John Lervik resigns from Microsoft-FAST - 23-Jan-2009
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