http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/06/11/autonomy-adjusting-to-a-post-google-world/ by Stephen E. Arnold Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:55:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/06/11/autonomy-adjusting-to-a-post-google-world/comment-page-1/#comment-15153 Autonomy PR Coup: The Financial Times Essay : Beyond Search Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:49:50 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=624#comment-15153 [...] Autonomy. This is not a public report, but I wrote a short note about the report and its assertions here. As I understood the analysis, Autonomy has to make its business model perform at peak efficiency [...] [...] Autonomy. This is not a public report, but I wrote a short note about the report and its assertions here. As I understood the analysis, Autonomy has to make its business model perform at peak efficiency [...]

]]> http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/06/11/autonomy-adjusting-to-a-post-google-world/comment-page-1/#comment-13794 Charlie Hull Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:28:34 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=624#comment-13794 The technology that's used for "pure" search by most vendors hasn't really changed since the 1970's - it's still based on the work of people like Stephen Robertson and the late Karen Spark-Jones. Build an inverted index, base it on a B-tree, search it and rank by relevance. There are bells and whistles, sure - but no, computers don't really understand context or concepts (at least not until we actually have strong AI, I'm not holding my breath). So, it's become a game of ease of integration, scalability and performance. Oh, and marketing: and Autonomy are very, very good at marketing. The technology that’s used for “pure” search by most vendors hasn’t really changed since the 1970′s – it’s still based on the work of people like Stephen Robertson and the late Karen Spark-Jones. Build an inverted index, base it on a B-tree, search it and rank by relevance. There are bells and whistles, sure – but no, computers don’t really understand context or concepts (at least not until we actually have strong AI, I’m not holding my breath). So, it’s become a game of ease of integration, scalability and performance. Oh, and marketing: and Autonomy are very, very good at marketing.

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