Search Keeps Getting Smarter
August 21, 2013
The Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval is a part of the Association for Computing Machinery. They host a yearly conference where a “state of the union” of search is presented. And while some may argue that search is an old technology, it is definitely not stagnant. Read more in the CMS Wire article, “Search is Getting Smarter All the Time.”
The author begins:
“There is a tendency to be critical of the fact that the core technology dates back to the work of Gerard Salton in the mid-1960s, and that therefore search is broken and is going nowhere. The same could be said of the internal combustion engine so long as you ignore the level of sophistication in Formula 1 and Indy cars. The reality is that search has never been in a better place in terms of development and there is a lot of exciting stuff sitting well below the horizon because of the disconnect between academic research and enterprise search development.”
Grant Ingersoll has posted some good reviews of this year’s conference. Ingersoll is the CTO and co-founder at LucidWorks. LucidWorks is part of the dynamic open source movement to which the article gives a great deal of attention. If search continues to get better, open source plays a large role in that, and the industry is noticing.
Emily Rae Aldridge, August 21, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
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