Search Meetup Cambridge – Challenges of Unstructured Data

Another Cambridge Search Meetup this week, with two speakers on unstructured data, plus the usual networking, beer and snacks. We started with Dean Yearsley of Pingar talking and bravely attempting a live demo of their API, which amongst other things has facilities for entity extraction i...Continue reading

Building bridges in the Cloud with open source search

We've just published a case study on our work for C Spencer Ltd., a UK-based civil engineering company who take a pro-active approach to document management - instead of taking the default Sharepoint route or buying another product off the shelf, they decided to create their own in-house system based on open source components, hosted on the Amazon AWS Cloud. We've helped them integrate Continue reading

Not so FAST…

Microsoft have announced a roadmap for their enterprise search products: none of this is very surprising. How successful they'll be at integrating the FAST technology (which comes from a Linux background) with Sharepoint, .NET etc. remains to be seen. They've also released an 'Express' (i.e., free but feature limited) version of Microsoft Search Server...Continue reading