Arnold Columns, August 2011
August 15, 2011
Another financial crisis, more executive turnover in search and content processing companies, and a definite dearth of substantive news. Nevertheless, I was able to prepare several columns for my publishers. One outfit, which I shall not name, seems to have lost its grip on its life preserver and has slipped under the water. Hopefully, the outfit will resurface.
Here’s the line up for my August columns, which have been submitted. I have no idea when these will appear in their hard copy or online form. Because this is work for hire, you won’t find the information in my free Web logs Beyond Search, SharePointSemantics, or Inteltrax, however. Such is life in the post crash world of copyright-infused publishing companies.
Enterprise Technology Management (London, England). “Google’s Enterprise Search: From Headliner to Bit Player.” In this essay, I pick up the theme that Google’s push into Android and Google Plus (Google+) has made it clear that the firm has some new priorities. In this shift, search is now becoming more a utility. I highlight what Google is doing and contrast it with what Dassault Exalead has in play. Guess which is performing more effectively? Read the ETM publication to find my answer to this question.
Information Today. Due to a brutal September travel schedule, I was a good little, but underpaid writer. I submitted my September and my October columns in August. Don’t worry the information in both is new and definitely important. The September column is “Two Search Innovations: The Snake and the Lion.” I discuss the Canadian teen who created a new approach to determining contextual relevance for short messages and the new metasearch system which uses the full width of today’s modern monitors to display search results. For the October column, I tackle European business intelligence as manifested in Spotter, a firm founded by a female manager wizard who is also a technology ace. This is definitely a must read for those who want more diversity in the male dominated world of search and content processing. This column is called “Business Intelligence: Overcoming the International Blind Spot.” Acquisitions, anyone?
For Information Today’s Newsbreaks, I wrote a longer piece which the editor edited to focus on my views of Google innovation. Cost cutting is interesting. You can find the original on the information Today Web site.
KMWorld has a stockpile of my columns. These will be running in the next issues. I have lost track of what’s in the queue.
Online Magazine. I am now a “regular” contributing longer essays for each issue of this prestigious publication. I am covering open source from the point of view of an online centric organization. This month’s feature is “Open Source Search: A Digital Technicolor Dream Coat.” The idea is that there seems to be something magical about open source. But is it for real or a theatrical convention before open source goes commercial? The answer to the question appears in my write up for Online.
There are two for fee content tests underway. These services may be killed after their alpha tests. If you want to see additional content produced by the ArnoldIT/Beyond Search team, check out www.patentpoints.com and www.thecardline.com.
Stephen E Arnold, August 15, 2011
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