Breakfast Links 19.01.2009
* Search & Deploy
Interesting article regarding semantic search being the basis of lots of scifi applications used in star trek etc – also worth reading for non IT insider. Doesn’t the Google Android reminds you on the good ol’ Star Trek Tricoder (picture above!)?
* Open Source Search & Search Appliances Need Expert Attention
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Search Team from FAST moving to Information Builders
Breakfast Links 14.01.2009
* Information Builders (Schweiz) AG übernimmt spezialisiertes Search–Team von fast, A Microsoft Subsidiary
Information Builders (ch) just acquired a 2 person team from FAST to build its new search excellence team. Their current product iWay Enterprise Index is an Enterprise Search solution and being built upon GSA and Lucene. Does anyone has any details [...]
Information Architecture Conference In Hamburg
Breakfast Links 13.01.2009
* IA Konferenz 2009
I never went to this conference before and pretty happy about the location (100km from my home office) in Hamburg this year. Call for papers is not done yet but there were also interesting topics at the IA 2007 you can find here.
* Virtualization and Search: Performance Tests Summary
The answer [...]
Lucene and Python
Breakfast Links 12.01.2009
* PyLucene – Python Lucene – Joins Apache Lucene
PyLucene is a python based port of Lucene which is build automatically from the original Lucene source. It just joined Apache Lucene as a sub project. Does this means I can run Lucene in Google’s App Engine?
* Interview with Norbert Weitkämper
Norbert Weitkämper (Weitkämper Technology) [...]
TrustYou Semantic Meta Search Engine
Breakfast Links 08.01.2009
* TrustYou – make a good choice
I just stumbled upon a press release from TrustYou, a search engine for hotel and restaurant recommendations. TrustYou calls itself a semantic meta search engine. Meta because it makes use of various existing hotel recommendation platforms like HRS, hotel.de and more. Semantic because of its pre-processing methods [...]
Channel Intelligence Case Study at AWS
Breakfast Links 06.01.2009
* Channel Intelligence Case Study: Amazon Web Services
Interesting case study about how Channel Intelligence uses a semi-automatic way to categorize masses of images and product data. CI uses Amazaon’s Mechanical Turk – an online marketplace for human workforce – to support their automated categorization system.
* Sky Grid: Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg Challenger
A quick [...]
Yahoo’s Success in Technology
Breakfast Links 09.12.2008
* Yahoo BOSS Now Serving 100 Queries Per Second
While Yahoo! was recently struggling with lots of negative issues in terms of their business (who is next Yahoo! CEO?), they kept on publishing and propagating their technologies. According to the Yahoo Search Blog, BOSS is now serving 10 million queries per day! In my [...]