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The Search & Information Access Report 2009 looks at... Microsoft and Enterprise Search

"A diagram of SharePoint Search is easily drawn, and will display the main ingredients of any search engine: content sources are crawled, indexed, and stored in an index; then searchers' queries will be passed to the query engine, which in turn will access the index and return results. As with most of the infrastructure vendors, however, reality isn't that simple and Microsoft draws on a sizable number of "generic" modules also seen elsewhere in their product line-up. "

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Enterprise search is not dead

19-Jan-2007   --  

Someone tell the vendors. Two fine blog entries point out that search vendors miss the point when they reposition themselves as business intelligence or business processing suppliers. Gilbane's Lynda Moulton finds vendors attempting to "stave off their own boredom" with enterprise search. MarkLogic CEO Dave Kellogg sees search vendors as "distracted with a strategic vision." Our own Steve Arnold has pointed out in the Enterprise Search Report that investors have pressed vendors to push beyond search on the assumption -- probably correct -- that search is a slow-growth field. But enterprise search is not dead. We see customers still investigating new systems, and more importantly, testing them more carefully, and still more importantly, carefully evaluating whether they can get more mileage out of their existing search technology by applying better practices, as recommended by smart consultants like Toby Ward and James Robertson.

- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst

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