Comments on: Search Confusion: Increasing http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/11/22/search-confusion-increasing/ by Stephen E. Arnold Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:17:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: What Is (Not) Search? | The Noisy Channel http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/11/22/search-confusion-increasing/comment-page-1/#comment-31701 What Is (Not) Search? | The Noisy Channel Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:02:16 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=3101#comment-31701 [...] the other day that raised a conundrum: what is *not* search? What do I mean by that? Well, as Stephen Arnold points out in a recent post, “search” can be anything from a “find-a-phone number [...] [...] the other day that raised a conundrum: what is *not* search? What do I mean by that? Well, as Stephen Arnold points out in a recent post, “search” can be anything from a “find-a-phone number [...]

]]> By: Stephen E. Arnold http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/11/22/search-confusion-increasing/comment-page-1/#comment-30790 Stephen E. Arnold Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:22:20 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=3101#comment-30790 Daniel Tunkelang, Thanks, but this post is a signal of frustration. I am getting fed up with SEO consultants, search consultants, and Enterprise 2.0 consultants. Add to these folks' blather, the drivel that passes for marketing for some high profile search and content processing vendors. The economy is in severe trouble and double talk, fake enthusiasm for semantic gizmos, and neologisms spawned by a 22 year old Berkeley graduate won't make things easier for customers who want to solve problems. Plain, accurate descriptions are what we need from vendors, consultants, and addled geese like me. Stephen Arnold, November 24, 2008 Daniel Tunkelang,

Thanks, but this post is a signal of frustration. I am getting fed up with SEO consultants, search consultants, and Enterprise 2.0 consultants. Add to these folks’ blather, the drivel that passes for marketing for some high profile search and content processing vendors. The economy is in severe trouble and double talk, fake enthusiasm for semantic gizmos, and neologisms spawned by a 22 year old Berkeley graduate won’t make things easier for customers who want to solve problems. Plain, accurate descriptions are what we need from vendors, consultants, and addled geese like me.

Stephen Arnold, November 24, 2008

]]> By: Daniel Tunkelang http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/11/22/search-confusion-increasing/comment-page-1/#comment-30587 Daniel Tunkelang Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:24:38 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=3101#comment-30587 Nice post. A lot of people--in industry and academia, and on both sides of the negotiating table--confuse search as a problem (i.e., the problem of finding information) with search as a solution (i.e., techniques for retrieving content in response to words entered in a text box). Frustration results when today's "search" solutions fail to address today's "search" problems. Nice post. A lot of people–in industry and academia, and on both sides of the negotiating table–confuse search as a problem (i.e., the problem of finding information) with search as a solution (i.e., techniques for retrieving content in response to words entered in a text box). Frustration results when today’s “search” solutions fail to address today’s “search” problems.

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