Most of us have experienced the painfully slow in-house search. The more documents saved on the servers, the longer it takes to find anything. Even if you know what the document is called, it could take hours to find. If there are multiple documents with similar file names, good luck with your query returning the desire ... Read more »

The search industry is evolving and semantic search is one of several (relatively) new iterations. It's not really new at all, as this blog on search taxonomy and user intent points out. Now, the author, David Colgate, doesn't come out and say that what he's talking about is a type of semantic search. He does however point ... Read more »

Road warriors use their SmartPhones like a mini computer, storing email, text messages, various types of media, contacts and even documents. The problem thus far has been that no major SmartPhone manufacturer provides a fully functional device search. The main problems with most mobile device search are the impossibly l ... Read more »

The internet is all abuzz with the release of Google Instant. While most are singing the praise of this new functionality, there are also some draw backs, the main one being the strain it will put on Google's servers. In a previous post we talked about how semantic search and trying to guess the context of your search ... Read more »

There are all kinds of search engines. While Google and Bing may be the most popular, neither is has the ultimate answer for all search queries. To wit, IBNLive recently released a list of Top 10 Search Engines Beyond Google, each of which serves its own niche information search. Search for music on Guruji.com, search ... Read more »

Data usage and storage are growing at exponential levels and enterprises are still scrambling for solutions for data management and retrieval. Recently, Chief Technology Officer Ken Ebert discussed the benefits Perfect Search technologies can offer businesses with Bill Ives, a thought leader in emerging technologies and kn ... Read more »

Google recently took a deep dive into semantic search, wherein search results are powered by what the algorithm thinks you mean you're searching for, instead of pulling up results by authority, informational content and relevance. Some might say these searches provide more relevant search results, and most of the time, I ... Read more »

Perfect Search is proud to announce that the Perfect Search Software and Appliance will be featured enterprise solutions in Microsoft's Partner Solution Center. The MPSC is a place where businesses are introduced to new advances from Microsoft and its partners. This gives Perfect Search the opportunity to reach more cu ... Read more »

FamilyLink.com was facing a problem. Its massive database of genealogical records was growing and so was site traffic. In a recent product review, FamilyLink Founder Paul Allen said Lucene's free open source search engine worked in FamilyLink's early days, but as both traffic and the database grew, the "Lucene platform star ... Read more »

People are hungry for more effective ways to collaborate. Collaboration means usability, and unfortunately, according to a 2009 Watson Wyatt report, only 50 percent of company employees use intranets and 80 percent say the systems need improvement. One of the big concerns? Search. It would follow that in order to coll ... Read more »