Smart People Love Federated Search

By now most of us are pretty familiar with the “information overload” problem parodied in Bing’s current advertising campaign. In case you’re not, information overload happens when you naively use a popular search engine expecting to find some specific information, like the real-world fuel economy of a used car you’re thinking of buying, and some [...]

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This post was written by Suzanne on May 2, 2010 Comments (1)

Meta Mastery – Some Thoughts On The Importance of Quality Meta Data

There is one supremely important aspect of search quality: Meta Data. Search quality is highly dependent on high quality meta data in both federated search solutions and meta data repositories like Summon or other unified index services. When considering sources to search in either a meta data index or a federated search, looking at the [...]

Posted Under: Federated Search
This post was written by Brian Despain on May 2, 2010 Comments (0)