Search Resources
There's a great deal of activity going on in the enterprise search
market - groups and resources popping up everywhere. We thought we'd
provide a list of the ones we know and respect best; feel free to add
your own suggestions as comments and we'll post them in a follow up.
User Forums
SearchDev.org: The independent search
developer's forum. A forum on the business and technology of
search.
SearchDev also has two technical forums for detailed
vendor-specific questions dealing with everything from coding and scripting to
problem resolution, with more in the works:
autonomy.searchdev.org
fast.searchdev.org
LinkedIn Groups
Enterprise Search Engine Professionals Group: A
fast-growing LinkedIn group for people working in or involved with enterprise
search in corporate environments worldwide. Search for it under the Groups
menu.
Enterprise Search Summit Group: A new group run by
Michelle Manafy at Information Today which will provide industry news and
information as well as details and podcasts about upcoming EDD
events.
Newsletters
Enterprise Search Newsletter: Produced by New
Idea Engineering, this newsletter covers both business and technical issues of
search, generally at a more detailed technical level. It covers all vendors,
provides advice for improving your search, and includes Ask Dr Search who
answers technical questions from subscribers.
Blogs
Enterprise Search Blog: A blog produced by
New Idea Engineering that covers all topics around the business and technology
of enterprise search including opinion, news, events and more.
The Noisy Channel: This insightful blog, run by Daniel Tunkelang, CTO of Endeca, has a perspective on technology of enterprise search from someone who knows search from the ground up.
Beyond Search:
Run by search guru Steve Arnold, Beyond Search contains news, interviews, and
opinion on the search market delivered
SearchTools: Avi Rappoport runs this blog
which summarizes new content from her website http://searchtools.com/ which
covers almost every search technology known to mankind!
SLI Systems
Blog: Hosted search service SLI Systems provides a newsletter that
talks about the kinds of problems they see in working with their customers.
http://www.sli-systems.com/newsletter.php
FAST Forward
Blog: A blog run by FAST Search staffed by FAST, Microsoft, and
independent bloggers who write about search and IT issues at
http://www.fastforwardblog.com/.
Attivio:The search vendor has a useful blog
at that had good general informaiton as well as Attivio-specific
material.
Mark
Logic Blog: Written by CEO Dave Kellogg, who shares interesting
informaitn about technolgy. A fun read, and always informative.
Vivisimo
Blog: Vivisimo runs the 'Search Done Right ' blog that provides
grat background information on enterprise search. Like Attivio's blog, this has
great background information that anyone can benefit from reading.
Flax Blog: From Lemur Consulting in the UK, the creators of the Flax open source search technology. You'll find more than just Flax here, though, with good coverage of issues relevant to enterprise search in general.
Gilbane Search Practice Blog: Written by Lynda Moulton, this is a good background blog for enterprise search as well. Gilbane holds two interesting content management conferences a year that include a search track that can be worthwhile.
Two other blogs i find most interesting are not directly related to
enterprise search, but I find good value when I follow them:
Andrew
McAfee, a Professor at Harvard Business School. writes about IT
issues, and he always has interesting material.
John
Battelle, author of 'The Search...', has an interesting blog as
well, and it's always fun to follow what he's doing.
Trade Shows
Enterprise Search Summit New York: Every May,
Information Today sponsors the premier show for enterprise search in New York
City. If you only go to one show a year, this is the one to go to. That's also
the advice we give to new vendors entering the marketplace. We'll be back again
this year, speaking about how you can save money by making your existing search
engine work rather than replace it. By the way, you can listen to a preview of our talk, as well as talks by other speakers including Matt Brown of Forrester and Sid Probstein of Attivio.
Search
Engine Meeting: Search Engine Meeting in an interesting show run by
Infonortics from the UK. In its 14th year, this year's
show returns to Boston in April 27-28; see you there!