There seems to be a trend on the rise, wherein search is moving away from the basic Boolean algorithm to a more sophisticated and tailored "social" approach. Ultimately the social search is driven by people. And this people driven approach is part of what the Enterprise Search Blog called a new kind of search experience. ... Read more »

This post on Search Engine Watch about the "Google Killer" no one talks about got me thinking. The author talks about true social search -- putting a query out to your social network -- being the dark horse Google is completely unprepared for. The other most underestimated Google competition is the rise of niche search ... Read more »

We talk a lot about the importance of effective enterprise search and its various components. But why is efficacy so important? So people can get things done. And most people work in teams. Bill Ives recently published some of his notes on Thomas Vander Wal's session at KM World 2010 about designing social search for ... Read more »

Search is moving away from so-called objectivity to semantic. All of the big players are implementing social search in their own ways. IBM's experiment is called Social Lens. In his review of Social Lens, Bill Ives describes something that sounds similar to how Pandora described the "Music Genome Project" in its early days ... Read more »