Confused Puppies Chewing on Enterprise Search
March 14, 2009
A not so happy quack to the reader who sent me two links and asked me for my opinion about each. I looked at Vivisimo’s blog here, which is called “Search Done Right”. I then looked at a blog from a person named SolrHack here. I think the Vivisimo blogger was responding to a post from someone (maybe MeetStan) who did not know much about behind the firewall search. The Vivisimo approach was to reproduce MeetStan’s cluelessness and suggest that he was a budding search pundit. I was not sure what to make of the post.
I clicked on the other link and read SolrHack’s challenge to any search vendor to index content “hidden behind Ajax”. I wasn’t sure what to make of this challenge.
What did I conclude after reading these two posts?
- The messages communicated about behind the firewall search were tough for me to figure out. I wonder if those with less grounding in search would fare much better?
- Neither post provides much substance. That’s too bad. In a lousy economy, clear thinking is needed in order to convince management to get behind search initiatives. Clear thinking is needed to crack tough content challenges.
- There’s no short path to resolving some information problems. If content is a secondary consideration, more than search technology is needed to make it accessible to users.
To the reader who asked me what I thought my answer is, “I don’t know.” The write ups reminded me of puppies chewing on raw hide bones.
Stephen Arnold, March 14, 2009
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Stephen, you might want to look at the discussion about MeetStan here:
http://thenoisychannel.com/2009/03/13/vivisimo-please-keep-it-real/