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Fast to be aquired by Microsoft

Enterprise search becomes a 1.2 billion dollar priority for Microsoft. 

The Fast products brings more enterprise search class features to Sharepoint and adds brainpower to the Microsoft Enterprise Search Team.

“Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to businesses of all sizes, helping people find, use and share critical business information quickly,” said Jeff Raikes, president of the Microsoft Business Division. “Until now organizations have been forced to choose between powerful, high-end search technologies or more mainstream, infrastructure solutions. The combination of Microsoft and FAST gives customers a new choice: a single vendor with solutions that span the full range of customer needs.”

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Microsoft announced Search Server Express today the features include:

• Go from downloading to searching in minutes with a streamlined installation experience, making it easy to get an enterprise search infrastructure running in your environment quickly.
• Review common administrative tasks, status, and settings in a single view using a unified administrative dashboard.
• Manage content sources, search scopes, authoritative sources, key words, best bets and other relevance tuning through a powerful, easy-to-use management console.
• Help ensure only the right people can find information using query and index-time security trimming.
• Monitor search performance and improve search relevance with query and results reporting.
• Empower your users to quickly find the information they need through a familiar Search Center interface
• Pinpoint the most relevant information you need with recommended best bets, authoritative sources, term definitions, hit highlighting, and query correction.
• Retrieve concise and clear search results with duplicate collapsing, allowing you to quickly review a wide variety of relevant information.
• Stay on top of new information relevant to your work by subscribing to update notifications of your search results using e-mail and RSS alerts.
• Build upon a familiar user interface and application platform that lets you customize your search experience and the actions you can take on your search results.
• Provide a search capability optimized for business data to deliver highly relevant results across intranet and public-facing web site content. Scale your deployment to meet your needs with no pre-set document limits.
• Find information across a variety of business applications and services using federated search connectors.
• Upgrade to a multi-server topology with Microsoft Search Server 2008.
• Upgrade to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 when you need to easily index structured information and expertise information , or add enterprise content management, collaboration, or other complementary capabilities to your business productivity infrastructure.

Coveo Awarded Patent for Automatic Speech Recognition Training Capabilities in Coveo Audio-Video Search Technology

Innovative speech recognition technology converts audio into text,
allowing users to search and find more accurate data from audio and video
files
Coveo Solutions Inc., a global provider of secure enterprise search solutions,
announced today that it won a U.S. patent for technology it developed to
automatically train the language model and modify the dictionary of a speech
recognition engine used with its award-winning Coveo Audio-Video Search (CAVS)
technology.

Coveo’s speech recognition training capabilities ’self-learns’ by
leveraging relevant contextual content related to the audio and video files,
allowing it to better model the enterprise language. Working in unison with
CAVS, the solution converts speech found within audio and video files into
text, so that the text can be indexed to more accurately match user queries
and offer a more productive search experience. With the integration of these
new and innovative speech recognition training capabilities, Coveo offers a
unique search tool that helps businesses and their customers more easily find
content, texts and video simply through textual queries.

“Speech recognition is becoming the standard for audio-visual search, as
recently noted by Google’s executives,” said Laurent Simoneau, Coveo’s chief
executive officer. “But while others in the market are setting the stage, we
are thrilled that Coveo is the first to market with a patented solution that
not only retrieves relevant audio and video, but does so by integrating smart
speech recognition technology capabilities.”

“Text search is a problem that is addressed by many products in the
market, but as more enterprise as well as Web information is stored in audio
or video files, we are losing access to the great swathes of information,”
said Sue Feldman, IDC’s VP for Search and Digital Marketplace Technologies.
“Speech recognition technologies like Coveo’s give us visibility into this
growing collection of non-text information.”

Thunderstone Software LLC has partnered with Persistent Systems, a leading custom software development company, to enable Thunderstone’s Search Appliance customers to use Persistent’s “Enterprise Content Search-enabling Connectors (ECSC)” in creating search-based applications across a broad array of enterprise content.New products currently available include Thunderstone Search Appliance connectors for:

--  IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 5.x and above

--  Microsoft SharePoint 2007, 2003 (web services)

--  EMC Documentum eRoom 7.2 and above

--  EMC Documentum Content Server 5.3

--  Hummingbird Document Manager 5.1

Scheduled for release later this year include Thunderstone Search Appliance connectors for:

--  BEA Weblogic Portal 10.0 --  BEA Weblogic Portal 6.0 --  SAP KM PortalM --  Interwoven WorkSite --  IBM DB2 Content Manager --  TWiki Portal 4.0

The Thunderstone Search Appliance provides a “plug-and-play” search solution that can handle more than 1,000 queries per minute. It delivers tremendous value without adding costly administrative overhead. Whether configured as the Small Business Edition or the Enterprise Edition, a Thunderstone Search Appliance offers an attractive choice of perpetual licensing options and underlying functionality simply unmatched by any competitor in the marketplace.

This years Search Engine Strategies conference in san Jose was bigger and better then ever. with thousands of attendees this is clearly a must for anyone interested in learning the latest on SEO and internet marketing techniques.  Some of the topics covered include: Image SEO and Google Universal Search, Indexing Dynamic Sites, and Video Search.

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