Definitions of Search to Die For. Maybe With?
October 13, 2016
I read “Search Terminology. Web Search, Enterprise Search, Real Time Search, Semantic Search.” I have included glossaries in some of my books about search. I did not realize that I could pluck out four definitions and present them as a stand alone article. Ah, the wonders of content marketing.
If you want to read the definition with which one can die, either for or with, have at it. May I suggest that you consider these questions prior to your perusing the content marketing write up thing:
Web search
- What’s the method for password protected sites and encrypted sites which exist under current Web technology?
- What Web search systems build their own indexes and which send a query to multiple search systems and aggregate the results? Does the approach matter?
- What is the freshness or staleness of Web indexes? Does it matter that one index may be a few minutes “old” and another index several weeks “old”?
Enterprise search
- How does an enterprise search system deliver internal content points and external content pointers?
- What is the consequence of an enterprise search user who accesses content which is incomplete or stale?
- What does the enterprise search system do with third party content such as consultants’ reports which someone in the organization has purchased? Ignore? Re-license? Index the content and worry later?
- What is the refresh cycle for changed and new content?
- What is the search function for locating database content or rich media residing on the organization’s systems?
Real time search
- What is real time? The indexing of content in the millisecond world of Wall Street? Indexing content when machine resources and network bandwidth permit?
- How does a user determine the latency in the search system because marketers can write “real time” while programmers implement index update options which the search administrator selects?
- What search system indexes videos in real time? YouTube struggles with 10 minute or longer latency with some videos requiring hours before the index points to those videos?
Semantic search
- What is the role of human subject matter experts in semantic search?
- What is the benefit of human-intermediated systems versus person-machine or automated smart indexing?
- How does one address concept drift as a system “learns” from its indexing of information?
- What happens to taxonomies, dictionary lists of entities, and other artifacts of concept indexing?
- What does a system do when encountering documents, audio, and videos in a language different from the language of the majority of a system’s users?
Get the idea that zippy, brief definitions cannot deliver Gatorade to the college football players studying in the dorm the night before a big game?
Stephen E Arnold, October 13, 2016
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