Bicycles, beer and bands – the first Cambridge Enterprise Search Meetup

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Charlie Hull

Last night we held the first of what we hope will be a series of Meetups in our home town of Cambridge, U.K. Attending were researchers, developers and entrepreneurs in the field of search - as is the norm in Cambridge many had cycled to the venue, and there was a friendly and informal feel to the group. We started with my presentation on "Searching news media with open source software", where I talke...Continue reading

Cambridge Enterprise Search Meetup tomorrow

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Charlie Hull

A quick reminder that our first Cambridge Enterprise Search Meetup is tomorrow, February 16th from 6.30pm. More details in my previous post. We now have two talks, one from myself on "Open Source Search for News" and one from John Snyder of Grapeshot on "Using Search to Connect Multiple V...Continue reading

Enterprise Search London – Financial applications, SBA book and Solr searching 120m documents

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Charlie Hull

Another excellent evening as part of the Enterprise Search London Meetup series; very busy as usual. Amir Dotan started us off with details of his work in designing user interfaces for the financial services sector, describing some of the challenges involved in designing for a high-pressure and highly regulated environment. Although he didn't talk about search specifically we hear...Continue reading

Background resources for Enterprise Search

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Charlie Hull

If you're planning an enterprise search project and have no background in the technologies or principles involved, here are some tips to get you started. This isn't going to be a definitive list so if you know more, please do comment. There haven't been a lot of books written on this area over the years, but more are appearing now (especially on open source options). Continue reading

Networking in a great city for enterprise search

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Charlie Hull

Cambridge, U.K. has a long history of hosting search experts and businesses. Back in the 1980s two firms arose - Cambridge CD Publishing, founded by Martin Porter and John Snyder grew into Muscat, and Cambridge Neurodynamics became Autonomy. We believe Smartlogic still have a sm...Continue reading

Log analysis and adaptive search

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Charlie Hull

I attended an interesting talk by Udo Kruschwitz on Adaptive Intranet Search last night as part of the Enterprise Search London Meetup. Udo has built a search engine for the University of Essex and has been investigating how to help users to refine their query using techniques such as suggesting related terms (there's a similar feature in Xapian called 'top terms' - Continue reading

Search networking groups in London

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Charlie Hull

Here are two relatively new networking groups - these are informal gatherings of those who work with enterprise search. I've been to the first one and it was very interesting. London Open Source Social - for those working with open-source enterprise search Enterprise Search London - more generally for those working in enterprise search...Continue reading