Watson Information Source Addons
Customize Watson to search the information sources that matter most to you, creating your own personal search tool!
Now availalbe on free version.
Fast Search & Transfer(TM) (FAST(TM)), the leading developer of enterprise search technologies and solutions, today announced the creation of the FAST Center for Search Innovation. The Center will provide research programs, thought leadership content, and exclusive knowledge exchange opportunities to executives in the corporate, government, and academic communities. Hadley Reynolds, former senior vice president and director of research at Delphi Group, will lead the new Center.
The Center for Search Innovation builds upon the success of FAST’s unique Search Best Practices consulting offerings, which includes sponsorship of more than 200 workshops with FAST customers, partners, and prospects. The new Center offers a centralized resource for catalyzing the development of intellectual capital, methods, and best practices that leading organizations can leverage to take advantage of the expanding business uses of enterprise search. The outcomes generated by the Center’s work will help FAST and its customers cultivate new management approaches and technology applications to meet the needs of global markets.
The Google Desktop Gadget Designer is an integrated development environment (IDE) for Sidebar gadget design that lets you quickly prototype or modify your gadget’s UI and test its performance. This document assumes familiarity with the principles, objects, and interfaces described in the Sidebar Scripting API document and the Sidebar Gadget Design Guidelines. Here, we only explain how to use the Designer and do not go into any detail about object or property types, design guidelines, how gadgets are packaged for Sidebar use, how to write associated scripts, etc.
Today Google announce the availability of free, hosted Google
Analytics accounts to all of our current Google Search Appliance and Google
Mini customers. Google Analytics is a powerful tool for
understanding the effectiveness of your web presence by tracking visitor
behavior and content performance. Google Analytics can help you answer
questions like:
- “How popular is our user registration process, and how often do those who
sign up then purchase a product? Or are users just after the free content?”
- “Our site has a lot of great multi-media content on it, but users aren’t
staying on it very long. Where are our users leaving our site?
- “What are our most effective online advertising campaigns for driving users
to our site?”
- “We’ve heard internationalization is a good thing - but where are our
visitors coming from and what technologies are they using to access our
site? Wouldn’t it be neat if we could visualize all of these visitors on
a world map?”
More information at www.goebelgroup.com
Free Watson Search Tool from Intellext Goes Customizable, Ties to MySpace and Others
Users Empowered to Create a Personal Search Tool with the Information Sources They Choose
Intellext (www.intellext.com) today announced that the new version 2.4 of its free Watson search tool is now fully customizable, allowing users to choose the information sources they want, creating their own personalized search tool. Prior to today, the customizability was available only in Watson Professional, the licensed version of the proactive search tool. In addition to traditional web search engines, blog search engines, news and shopping sites, users can now also tap into additional sources including networking sites MySpace and LinkedIn, and premium news sites like the Wall Street Journal.
IBM is seeking to bolster its challenge at the low end of Enterprise Search by adding a downsized versions of its enterprise search and content integration engines to appeal to the high end of the SMB market.
The products, IBM WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Starter Edition and WebSphere Information Integrator Content Starter Edition, come with starting prices around $30,000. That’s roughly half of their enterprise counterparts.
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Management of Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing, and Microsoft AdCenter Internet Search Advertising Campaigns for the Growing Latino Market.
June 28th, Cleveland, Ohio. Goebel Group Inc., a leading search engine technology advisory services company announce today the launch of a service to manage search engine adverting campaigns targeting the Latino market. These services provide a way for consumer products companies to reach the growing Latino and Hispanic markets. Services include setting goals and objectives, keyword analysis, creating search engine advertising campaigns, management of campaigns, and reporting of results.
“We have helped our clients improve visibility into the Latino market by identifying keywords that people are searching for regardless of language,” said David Goebel, president of Goebel Group Inc. “Depending on the market some consumers search in English and others in their native language. We help our clients find the right mix of English and Spanish search advertising.”
Studies have shown that Latino Internet users search in English and in thier native language.
The Search Engine Marketing package includes:
Press Releases
Email Newsletters
Creation
Distribution
Reporting
Website Analytics
Google Analytics
Shows web traffic
Keywords
Geography
Website Review
Keyword analysis
Web page creation
Search Engine Advertising Management.
Google
Yahoo
MSN
Linking Strategy
Unlimited Phone Support
Secure Desktop Search for the Enterprise Now Available Free from X1 Technologies
Enterprise Client Controls User Search Access and Privileges While Adding User Productivity Features
PASADENA, CA – June 19, 2006 – X1 Technologies, Inc., a leader in enterprise desktop search, today unveiled a free, secure desktop search solution for the enterprise. The award winning X1® Enterprise Client gives business users comprehensive desktop search capabilities without putting enterprise assets at risk. Free of charge to their organizations, business users can increase productivity by searching desktop email, calendars and documents quickly and easily while IT managers can feel comfortable that network assets are secure. “For most information workers, desktop search is the only way to get at the mass of information they have stored and can no longer find,” said Sue Feldman, Research Vice President, Content Management and Retrieval Solutions at IDC. “For enterprises concerned with both productivity and security, X1 provides the usability that end users need with administrative tools for enterprises to ensure that their information is secure, no matter where it is.” The free X1 Enterprise Client is the first Desktop Search product designed specifically for enterprise use. By disabling features that can put corporate data at risk and adversely affect exchange and network performance, X1 has delivered the first desktop search product that is safe for deployment on corporate networks.
This week, Vivisimo is introducing a new chapter in the evolution of search solutions for the enterprise, Velocity 5. In talking with customers and partners such as yourself, we have come to find many providers of enterprise search platforms continue to move beyond a core focus of solving existing enterprise search requirements. Thus, we are proud to introduce Velocity 5 as the industry’s only search platform to combine the simplicity and innovation of consumer search with the control and flexibility of enterprise software.
We are calling our new initiative in the market, “Search Done Right,” designed to ensure that Vivisimo’s solutions meet the requirements of two very important constituents, end users as well as administrators (http://vivisimo.com/html/solutions)
Among some of the highlights of Vivisimo Velocity 5:
· Velocity 5 allows users to access and manipulate both structured and unstructured content at the same time by using new graphical interface controls. New features of Velocity 5 that deliver a superior user experience include:
o Meta data visualization
o Role-based search
o Rich media search
o Save, share & export of results
o Result preview
· Velocity 5 also provides architectural enhancements with unprecedented administrative control. Now structured and unstructured content elements can be extracted, normalized, and combined together to create virtual documents, regardless of location. Additional new administrative functionalities in Velocity 5 include:
o Content extraction & normalization
o Virtual document creation
o Formula based sorting, filtering, & grouping
o Smart summarization
o Content-level security
FAST & Cognos Team to Deliver Enterprise Business Intelligence Through Search
Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) announced a partnership with Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN). The partnership is the foundation for a new FAST integration that joins the FAST Enterprise Search Platform (FAST ESP) with Cognos 8 Business Intelligence. The combination of FAST ESP and Cognos 8 BI with Cognos Go! Search Service delivers a solution which enables users to leverage enterprise search functionality to find reports, analysis, scorecards, dashboards, and other business intelligence information, along with corporate content such as documents, e-mail and other forms of structured and unstructured business information distributed across the enterprise. With Contextual Insight, FAST ESP looks to analyze and interpret the underlying meaning behind reports, not just the reports themselves. To support the continued engineering and sales activity, Cognos and FAST have joined each other’s Alliance Partner programs.