Trifles in Enterprise Search History
May 6, 2014
Search conferences are, in my experience, context free. The history of enterprise search is interesting and contains useful examples pertaining to findability. Stephen E Arnold’s new video is “Trifles from Enterprise Search History.” The eight minute video reviews developments from the late 1970s and early 1980s. These mini snapshots provide information about where some of the hottest concepts today originated. Do you think MarkLogic invented an XML data management system that could do search and analytics? The correct answer may be Titan Search. What about “inventing” an open source search business model. Do you think Lucid Imagination, now Lucid Works, cooked up the concept of challenging proprietary systems with community created software? The correct answer may be Fulcrum Technologies’ early concoction of home brew code with the WAIS server. What about the invention of jargon that permeates discussions of content processing. A good example is a “parametric cube”. Is this the conjuring of Spotfire and Palantir? Verity is, in Mr. Arnold’s view, the undisputed leader in this type of lingo in its attempts to sell search without using the word “search.” Grab some SkinnyPop and check out Trifles.
Kenneth Toth, May 6, 2014
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