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It's been an exciting past few weeks as I attended Microsoft's World Partner Conference for the award winners activities, going on stage in front of over 16000 world wide partners was surprisingly stress free. For those of you who likes Where's Waldo or Where's Wally if you're from the UK. You can find a photo of me here. After selecting ...

I've just returned from the sunny climates of Phoenix, AZ where Endeca held their annual client / partner conference called Discover 2011. For those of you new to Endeca, i'd suggest starting at Endeca.com and taking a look. Endeca with their MDEX search engine are one of the big three search vendors in the marketplace today. The others being ...

The road to a quality search solution can be a long one, but one should ask these questions ((not a complete list by any means) to customers before suggesting a search solution. 1. What are the current pain points?  2. Do you have a full inventory of your content repositories?  3.  What are the users top 10 complaints? ...

One of the most common misconceptions I hear almost on a weekly basis is that search is just a install and go piece of software. The simple fact is this just isn't the case if you want to maximize you return on investment and improve your content's findability, configuration is essential. At it's highest level the success of a search engine is ...

Over the past fifteen years the globe has been privy to the wildest uncontrolled burst of communication technology growth ever seen.  From global mobile phone network coverage, blogs, social networks, the digitisation of entire libraries; the list goes on and on.  We as a civilisation are addicted to the creation and distribution of ...