Open source intranet search over millions of documents with full security
Last year my colleague Tom Mortimer talked about indexing security information within an open source enterprise search application, and we're happy to announce more details of the project. Our client is an international radio supplier, who had considered both closed source products and search appliances, but chose open source for greater flexibility and the much lower cost of scaling...Continue reading
Next-generation media monitoring with open source search
Media monitoring is not a traditional search application: for a start, instead of searching a large number of documents with a single query, a media monitoring application must search every incoming news story with potentially thousands of queries, searching for words and terms relevant to client requirements. This can be difficult to scale, especially when accuracy must be maintained - a client won't be happy if their media monitors miss relevant stories or send them news that isn't relevant. ...Continue reading
Open source search across the enterprise
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Building a new press cuttings service for the Financial Times
Those of you who read my slides from Search Solutions 2010 will have spotted a case study on our work for the Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business news organisations. When the Financial Times decided to bring their digital press cuttings in-house in summer 2010, they asked us to build a powerful 'search server' that they could easily integrate into their existing product offerings. We built an indexer...Continue reading
Finding French TV with Flax
We've recently been working with mySkreen, who like Hulu in the U.S. provide a service for finding and viewing television programs via your web browser. mySkreen is the brainchild of Frédéric Sitterlé, previously Head of New Media at the Le Figaro media group. mySkreen works with French-language content, and is currently indexing over 1.6 million programmes (and counting). Using F...Continue reading
Enterprise search – for free
We recently helped a small marine consultancy, running a Windows network, implement a completely free enterprise search solution. Even SMEs are now finding it hard to keep on top of the information they produce, and there are few low-cost options for searching their documents. Read the case study here (PDF). ...Continue reading
Perl client for Flax Search Server
Flax Search Server now has a Perl client, thanks to the guys at Cognidox, who have blogged about why they needed to improve the search facility for their powerful document management system....Continue reading
