Posts Tagged ‘Enterprise Search’

Consumer experiences drive enterprise user expectations.  That’s become increasingly true over the last few years.  Now Facebook is making a bid to provide the first fundamental change to how we experience Search since Google introduced the now-ubiquitous Simple White Page With An Empty Search Box. Will Facebook’s latest innovation join the queue of consumer applications […]

Yesterday, we hosted a SharePoint 2013 webinar that covered the new search and social features. Will Tseng, a senior technical consultant within Perficient’s SharePoint practice, and Rich Wood, director of Perficient’s national SharePoint practice, teamed up to talk about two of their favorite topics. In the first half of the webinar, Will discussed key components of designing […]

So I was getting some unexpected behavior (as in just not working!) when I tried to apply sorting to people search from the peopleresults.aspx page through the query builder. I hadn’t had any issues sorting on my other result sources but people results were proving to be stubborn. To reproduce, try going to your People […]

Not the right effect? Very short and sweet this time, hopefully will help those who happen on this page for this common issue. In the Query Builder, you can create a query using using fields or managed properties. A common field that users will use for creating a fielded search is Content Type. However, as […]

Today, Perficient announced it was named the 2012 Google North America Deployment Partner of the Year. The award recognizes the Perficient team for their expertise in enterprise search and the many successful implementations of the Google Search Appliance (GSA) platform across all industries, including solutions for pharmaceutical, e-commerce and software companies. From the press release, […]

I recently investigated a few Enterprise Search tools.  After attending some training, I was really excited to learn more about the software and what Enterprise Search is all about.  I wanted to use this blog as an opportunity to share some information that I have obtained and present my opinion on where this industry is […]

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised about Oracle buying another company.  Endeca has a great search engine.  Years ago, mostly commerce sites running WebSphere Commerce and ATG used it but recently a lot of other companies have used them because they make faceted search easy.  I’ll be curious to see how this Oracle acquisition affects […]

Admittedly, search hasn’t been IBM’s game for a bit.  Slowly over the years we have seen their search product, Omnifind, come together and now with 9.1 it all changes – for the better.   I have reviewed pretty much every major player in the search market from Autonomy to Google to Endeca to Lucene and […]

Whit Andrews is a great presenter whose focus is on search, video, and a number of other topics.   Enterprise search is now mature.  The number of Google searches for the term enterprise search peaked over 4 years ago. The point is that search is now an adult technology which should be granted a level […]