Recently we've discussed the rise of software based storage and search solutions. According to Perfect Search Corp Software Engineer, Lynn Bendixsen, the benefit of disk -- or software -- based search is that you can actually store more data on a disk than you can in standard computer memory. More space means more informat ... Read more »

A study recently came out claiming that college students don't know how to use Google for research. Aside from the obvious question of the relevance of any study with such a small sample size, there are other issues at play here. One such issue is that many college students grow up using Google as a way to find things, but ... Read more »

Open source technology providers don't like when analysts use the phrase "Free isn't free." As Paul Allen, founder of FamilyLink.com discovered when seeking a solution to his data storage problems, you get what you pay for. The free Lucene option worked, until it didn't and Allen Found himself looking for a viable option to ... Read more »

What is it about entreprise search that seems more challenging than Internet search? In "Sorting Out Microsoft's Mixed-Up Enterprise Search Strategy," RedmondMag examines this very issue. There are lots of options among the approved vendors, however, none really seem to make the grade and there is no real compatibility ac ... Read more »

It is becoming more and more clear that a driving factor in the data explosion is unstructured data. According to a recent article on ZDNet, many organizations know that they have stores of unstructured data but have no idea what to do about it. Here is the key though: Even organizations with higher concentrations of un ... Read more »

The simple answer to this question is yes. But what makes Perfect Search a green technology? According to Perfect Search Corp. Software Engineer Lynn Bendixsen, Perfect Search is green (video) because of the amount of data it can fit onto a single server. Not only can the Perfect Search appliance hold more information, it ... Read more »