http://www.coblentzclan.com/needtoknow About Search, Indexing, Classification, Taxonomies, and other topics around information science. Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:17:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was cleaning out the old cubicle and finally sat down to go through the magazines. You know, the ones you keep meaning to read but never really get around to. Well, they're old. I'm not going to read the really old stuff but some of them were dog-eared ... http://www.coblentzclan.com/needtoknow/?p=17 I need to take a short break from the session about search and EMC. I came across this entry in the blogosphere: The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines by Written by Charles Knight, AltSearchEngines editor / January 29, 2007 2:34 AM To be very honest with you, I don't use ... http://www.coblentzclan.com/needtoknow/?p=16 Well, this isn't related to search exactly, but it is an interesting visualization of the topic.  I came across an unusual site, Wordle, and pasted the last post into the site.  You get some amazing tag cloud layouts. Frankly, this is art more than anything but that's what art ... http://www.coblentzclan.com/needtoknow/?p=15 If your users are looking to search for information and the deployed architecture does not support that style of search, then the system will be crippled overall. No matter how good a search engine is, if it's deployed badly, or if it is unsuited to the type of ... http://www.coblentzclan.com/needtoknow/?p=13 I mentioned in my previous post that I was stunned to realize that search as a a technology was really only about 18 years old. I just didn't realize. No wonder it doesn't work well. The other thing that I've observed is that most people, including architects, designers, product managers, etc., ... http://www.coblentzclan.com/needtoknow/?p=8 I suspect that this entry will get a few comments. I hope it does. I was putting together my deck for EMC World and thought that maybe it would make good blog material. People are always asking me about search, classification, analytics, and visualization anyway, so I thought, why not? I started ... http://www.coblentzclan.com/needtoknow/?p=5