Preparing for ALA Panel and Federated Search Neutrality

As is usual for me I’m up early this morning after the three day Memorial Day weekend, going through my Biznar Alerts, and I run into this interesting blog post: Net Neutrality and Federating Searching Jake, a librarian in the D.C. area and beer aficionado (he’s the beerbrarian), writes on how the neutrality of federated [...]

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This post was written by Abe on May 31, 2011 Comments (0)

The trouble with general search engines

In this “Best of” article I take a look at an article from the Federated Search Blog archives. I wrote “The trouble with general search engines” in 2008. The message of the article is as true today as it was three years ago: the big search engines aren’t good enough for business research (nor for [...]

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This post was written by Sol on May 20, 2011 Comments (0)

Federated search: the challenges of incremental results

Welcome to the second edition of “Best of the Federated Search Blog.” In this series I pull articles out of the Federated Search Blog archive and comment on them for the benefit of those considering Deep Web Technologies‘ offerings. In March, 2008 I explored the “incremental results” feature which Deep Web Technologies makes available in [...]

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This post was written by Sol on May 13, 2011 Comments (0)

Diagnosing Federated Search Source Problems: It’s Harder Than You Think

Welcome to “The Best of the Federated Search Blog.” In this ongoing series I will be commenting on classic articles that I have authored for the Federated Search Blog. I aim to focus on the relevance of the article to current and prospective customers of Deep Web Technologies. In this first “Best of” article, Diagnosing [...]

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This post was written by Sol on May 3, 2011 Comments (0)