by Martin White | Aug 9, 2017 | Search
It is a grey day here in Horsham and we have had heavy rain for the last five hours. Motivation to do anything is low and my only refuge is Twitter. But then a bright shaft of light emerges from a blog post from Matthew McDermott at Aptillon SharePoint Consulting...
by Martin White | Aug 9, 2017 | Reviews, Search
This is the latest version of my occasional attempts to define a core library for search managers. This time I have structured the list from strategy to operations and added a brief scope note on them. A reasonably complete list of books on information retrieval and...
by Martin White | Aug 8, 2017 | Search
Although the theme of this series of posts is enterprise search only now in the 1970s do products emerge which are clearly the antecedents of what we would regard as enterprise search applications. From here on in the focus on academic research will be significantly...
by Martin White | Aug 7, 2017 | Search
Condensing the progress made in the 1960s into a single post is not easy and so this is a very selective perspective. As far as algorithm developments were concerned Bourne and Ford published a paper on stemming in 1961, Damerau reported on approaches to solve...
by Martin White | Aug 3, 2017 | Big Data, Search
Although the deal was closed on 31 July the news about Search Technologies being acquired by Accenture Analytics only broke yesterday. The title of this blog is to highlight that the fact that Co-Founder, President and CEO Kamran Khan seems to have been looking for a...
by Martin White | Jul 31, 2017 | Search
I have set the start date for this history somewhat arbitrarily as 1948, the year of the Royal Society Scientific Information Conference. This conference identified the challenges that lay ahead in managing the flow of scientific information, challenges that we have...
