Search Wizards Speak: 2010 Wrap Up
December 21, 2010
In 2010, we published 10 exclusive interviews with “Search Wizards”. In the event you missed one of the 2010 interviews, the table below provides one-click access to the interviews. Each interview covers a vendor’s technical approach, key functions their system includes, and insights into future search trends. We have talked with a handful of search wizards twice. Each interview contains different information about search. We try to choose vendors with interesting approaches to content processing and finding information.
The series now contains 50 interviews since January 2008. The information in the full text interviews may prove useful when trying to figure out what different systems deliver. The content collection represents one of the most comprehensive sets of first-person information about search and retrieval available.
The information is available with charge, and you are welcome to use it for library and academic purposes without contacting me. If you are a consulting firm (blue, azure, or colorless), you need to obtain permission in writing prior to your using the information for commercial purposes. I learned in June 2010 that one of the money grubbing mid tier outfits was asking newly hired consultants to “read the information on the ArnoldIT.com Web site” as part of their acculturation process. Imagine how excited I was to have one of the firm’s real live, mid tier professionals tell me about this use of my information. And guess what? The person told me this at a reception for a vendor’s user group meeting. What makes the mid-tier consultants so darned special? Great situational judgment.
| Company | Wizard | Focus |
| Alta Plana | Seth Grimes | Smart content |
| Aster Data | Quentin Gallivan | Big data |
| Autonomy | Fernando Lucini | Health and meaning based computing |
| Digital Reasoning | Tim Estes | Synthesys Version 3 |
| Digital Reasoning | Time Estes | Data fusion and analytics |
| Easy Ask | Craig Bassin | NLP |
| Hot Neuron | Bill Dimm | Clustering |
| Inforbix | Oleg Shilovitsky | Manufacturing & components search |
| Lucid Imagination | Brian Pinkerton | Enterprise open source search |
| Sematext | Otis Gospodnetic | Open source search |
The other companies participating in the interview series are listed on the ArnoldIT.com subsite index page. If you are looking for in-depth information about these vendors and the 250 other search and content processing companies I follow, write me at seaky2000 at yahoo dot com. There are mid tier and lower level consulting firms offering information about search vendors. Where does some of that information originate? If you said, ArnoldIT.com, you might be more correct than you believe.
Oh, I don’t cover firms that are on the edge of the knife. Some of these companies are exiting enterprise information retrieval and others lack the oomph to warrant inclusion in my Overflight service.
Stephen E Arnold, December 21, 2010
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