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

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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

Next-generation media monitoring with open source search

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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

When search isn’t just search at The Guardian

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A fascinating event last night as the Guardian team told us more about how they've used open source search technology to build their new open platform. The presentations were brief and to-the-point, and covered how the team have created a detailed, rich API to their news content, all built on the open source engine Continue reading