#1 - How does it work?
You'll probably get as many different answers to this as there are vendors - but you may not get the whole truth. Bear in mind that a lot of search engines share what theoretical ideas they apply. An engine might use a vector-space or probabilistic models for ordering results, for example. Most will create an
We're very happy to announce that we've been selected as an Authorized Partner by Lucid Imagination, the commercial company for Lucene and Solr. You can read the press release as a PDF here. Apache Lucene and Solr, available as open source software from the Apache Software Foundation, are powerful, scalable, reliable and fully-fea...Continue reading
We've now completely redesigned the Flax website - we hope you like it. We've tried to focus more on explaining exactly what we do and how the Flax open source search platform might be able to help your business. Of course, there are sure to be teething problems - if you find anything that doesn't work do let us know!...Continue reading
News International have announced they will be charging for access to their Times and Sunday Times newspaper websites within a few months. At the same time we have the announcement that the Independent newspaper is to be bought by a Russian oligarch, and may end up as a free publication. This divergence of business models is interesting, but what concerns us at Flax is how ...Continue reading
Last week we heard from various sources that Microsoft had announced they would only be continuing to develop its recently acquired FAST Search technology on Windows. This had long been Continue reading
A new year, and a chance to think about what might happen in the world of enterprise search over the next twelve months. I'll make a stab at some predictions:
As September begins, there are various events coming up that may be of interest to some of our readers. We have a list of conferences we're attending and/or presenting at. Gartner are running their Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit in mid September in London. Also in London is E Commerce Expo 2009 in late October, which may be ...Continue reading
We're finding more and more clients interested in the advantages of a powerful open source enterprise search engine. Thus, we're looking at expanding the team - can you help?...Continue reading
The Burton Group have just released a report on open source enterprise search, available for $995. We were consulted as part of the research done by the report's author, Larry Cannell, and have seen the full report - it's a good overview of the current options available....Continue reading
Microsoft have been asking open source companies not to compete on cost, but rather on value, according to ZDNet. Unfortunately the response to this hasn't exactly been positive, as CNET reports. I doubt many open source vendors will be taking much notice of what Microsoft would like them to do, and suspect they wil...Continue reading
