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  • IBM Big Data Initiative coming in focus with Vivisimo, Cloudera, Hadoop Partnerships

    Big data management and analytics is becoming a key basis of competition as organizations look to turn their complex and large data sets into business assets. In “Analyst Commentary: IBM Adds Search and Broadens Hadoop Strategy with Big Data,” Stuart Lauchlan comments on IBM’s Vivisimo acquisition. Lauchlan says that the acquisition puts to rest the [...]



  • Test and Compare Enterprise Search Engines with Open Test Search

    We recommend giving this new site a test drive: Open Test Search, still in beta, pits enterprise search engines against each other. Demos of nine search engines are now available, including Amazon CloudSearch, Google Mini, Thunderstone, Constellio, Searchdaimon ES, Microsoft SSE 2010, and SearchBlox. Each has the same data set indexed and can run the [...]



  • Perils of Social Media and Compliance

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  • Forbes: Google and Facebook Will Be Obsolete in Five Years. Really?

    When researching the impact of web tycoons like Google and Facebook, every once in a while you come across an article that’s so out of left field that it bears mentioning. Forbes contributor, Eric Jackson’s article “Here’s Why Google and Facebook Might Completely Disappear in the Next 5 Years,” is an excellent example of one [...]



  • Catalyst Search Scientists Coauthor Book on Next-Generation Search

    DENVER, May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Two leaders of research and development at Catalyst have helped write a seminal new book on search, Next Generation Search Engines: Advanced Models for Information Retrieval, …



  • Yahoo and Governance

    Short honk: I don’t much, if any, attention to Yahoo. My last big analysis of Yahoo was shortly after its then Chief Technology Officer tried to explain to a financial services client of mine that Yahoo was ahead of Google in search. Crazy assertion from a crazy outfit. In my report, I included an image [...]



  • IBM Embraces Social

    I wonder what happened to Watson. Surely that next-generation search technology has not been marginalized by Vivisimo’s “big data” antics or the “New IBM Business Integration Software [that] Helps Enterprises Accelerate Adoption of Social, Business, Cloud, and Mobile Technologies.” Wow, that’s like a digital Popeil pocket fisherman. Now the secret sauce for this digital cornucopia [...]



  • DON eDiscovery Costs are Frustrating

    Here is a not-so-surprising revelation recently reported by Inside Counsel: most users are frustrated with the cost of eDiscovery. The article, “New Study Says Cost is Most Frustrating Factor in eDiscovery,” reveals the results of a survey by consulting company FTI Technology. The survey covered ways to streamline and reduce the cost of eDiscovery. The [...]



  • IBM Buys Vivisimo Allegedly for Its Big Data Prowess

    Big data. Wow. That’s an angle only a public relations person with a degree in 20th century American literature could craft. Vivisimo is many things, but a big data system? News to me for sure. IBM has been a strong consumer and integrator of open source search solutions. Watson, the game show winner, used Lucene [...]



  • Clearwell Clicks with Nikon for eDiscovery

    Nikon, a leading Japanese optical instruments maker, has presumably made its legal team very happy. Symantec announces, “Nikon Corporation Takes Control of eDiscovery Process with Symantec’s Clearwell eDiscovery Platform.” The press release explains: “The product provides the flexibility necessary for cross-border eDiscovery cases typically faced by Japanese customers, where litigation often demands multi-jurisdictional support and [...]