Category Archives: metasearch

Federated Search for Google Search Appliance

By jts | Published: May 23, 2008
MuseGlobal and Adhere Solutions recently announced a federated search extendor, the All Access Connector, for the Google Search Appliance and Google Mini. Sol at Federated Search Blog raises some good questions about how relevancy is calculated for search results. One point is that Google’s PageRank probably won’t fare well in the enterprise. [...]
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Thank you, John Wilkins

By jts | Published: December 5, 2007
I was catching up on Lorcan Dempsey’s thoughts before attending his talks at KU today and tomorrow.  Lorcan, thanks for pointing me to John Wilkins’ blog – really more essay than blog.  While reading John’s salient and well-structured thoughts on metasearch and library systems, I find myself nodding and thinking “exactly”.  “We must not try [...]
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