IBM Search Technology

May 25, 2010

Before I headed West last week, I participated in a discussion about IBM search technology. No one at the lunch meeting worked at IBM, but, hey, IBM is a giant in software and services and each person had a viewpoint.

One surprising factoid emerged from chatter, and I wanted to snag it before it flew away like my first female goose friend. (She left for New York, abandoning the joys of rural Illinois for the bright lights in the big city. She probably ended up working at IBM in Armonk.)

IBM has a mini Web site embedded within its sprawling IBM digital Uzbekistan. The page is “Enterprise Search Technology.” The subtitle is “Innovation Matters”. You can navigate directly to this page by clicking this link. Finding the page took some work, but you are welcome to experience the thrill of hunt via IBM.com if you have some spare time.

IBM describes Trevi, which is an Intranet search system. The system incorporates six technologies, illustrated in the diagram below:

Source: IBM 2010.

The factoid: The page seems to be an island in time. The featured researcher – Marcus Fontoura – offers some comments about problems in searching. A click returns a 404 error.

Interesting.

Stephen E Arnold, May 25, 2010

Freebie.

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Business strategy, Enterprise, News, Search, Text analytics, Text processing

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.