Comments on: Autonomy IDOL Metrics

By: Sabina Obenauer

Sabina Obenauer — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:27:17 +0000

Really enjoyed this post, is there any way I can receive an email whenever you make a new article?

By: Enterprise Search Solutions

Enterprise Search Solutions — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:21:39 +0000

Just to add on to a previous posters comment – MaxxCAT offer two solid competitors to both Google Mini and GSA. MaxxCAT search appliances can perform queries at up to 16x faster speeds, can perform third-party site crawls, cost thousands less and offer lifetime perpetual use. You can even see a side by side demonstration of MaxxCAT’s offerings with the Google competition at http://www.maxxcat.com/compare-enterprise-search-appliance.html.

By: Confluence: Product Marketing

Confluence: Product Marketing — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:04:22 +0000

Performance Promotion…

A program designed to build awareness of Digitial Reef’s scale and performance profile. The target market includes consumers of eDiscovery solutions; Service Providers, Enterprise CIOs, Consultants and Law Firms…….

By: Stephen E. Arnold

Stephen E. Arnold — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:05:18 +0000

Unsigned,

Yep, but I charge for this information. Free info is availablie at http://www.arnoldit.com and this Web log. For info about for fee options, check out the About tab above.

Stephen Arnold, March 26, 2009

By: New to search

New to search — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:40:09 +0000

I work in the legal space that requires us to search potentially relevant files across an enterprise is critical for us. Can you unwrap the mystery (not to many IT terms) on idol vs lucene? Or is there a better alternative.

By: freddieMaize

freddieMaize — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:23:16 +0000

Hi Stephen, the following news might interest you,

“MaxxCat enterprise search solutions has its sights set on Google with a new product line that is up to 16 times faster than Google’s search appliances. MaxxCat is aspiring to be the Google Search Appliance killer, boasting unlimited lifetime use, no artificial document size limitations, significantly lower price points, and a higher level of relevancy customization than any other search appliance on the market”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29640642/

Regards

By: Stephen E. Arnold

Stephen E. Arnold — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:41:02 +0000

Daniel Tunkelang,

The numbers mean something to the financial mavens who have to throw hardware at a search system to make the thing run at what the customer thinks is an acceptable pace.

Stephen Arnold, March 5, 2009

By: Daniel Tunkelang

Daniel Tunkelang — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:43:00 +0000

These are interesting numbers, even if they are of questionable provenance. But I don’t see anything about the tasks being tested, or the effectiveness of the search engine at supporting the fulfillment of those tasks. Not to diminish the importance of indexing scale and query latency, but I’d think the first thing you would want to measure is effectiveness for users, or at least some reasonable proxy for it.

Of course, effectiveness and hard to measure, as witnessed by the challenges of doing so even in the academic community. The IR community generally likes TREC (which emphasizes mean average precision on benchmark test collections), but we HCIR folks keep reminding them that TREC assumes a highly unrealistic batch model of information retrieval. The information scientists usually call for user studies, but those are prohibitively expensive to run on any significant scale. Quite a conundrum.

Of course, we can give up on all that and just produce numbers. But I wonder who will actually care about them.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:43:30 +0000

I’ve had some exposure to Autonomy over the years and have mixed feelings. Anyone remember Kenjin? One way to get a feel for these metrics in practice would be for Autonomy to index Medline (and the full text of research papers where available) and let us all play with the result for a few weeks.

By: Yahoo BOSS Queries per Second : Beyond Search

Yahoo BOSS Queries per Second : Beyond Search — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:28:51 +0000

[...] readers have commented via the blog feedback and by email about the Autonomy metrics I summarized here. To provide some baseline data, I dipped into my search archive an located an item that appeared in [...]