Beyond the firewall…

A few weeks ago I was quoted in an interesting blog entry on Information World Review (http://blog.iwr.co.uk/2008/08/google-stakes-i.html) talking about enterprise search and, particularly how Google is, once again, putting pressure on the industry. I think it’s worth expanding on a couple of things, particularly what I mean by enterprise search going beyond “what’s behind the […]

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Here, there, everywhere…

If this week it seems that SLI Systems is everywhere that’s because its our busiest week of the year. Here are some of the various events that we are visiting this week; Enterprise Search Summit West September 23 – 25 San Jose, CA Booth #235 ExactTarget Connections ’08 User Conference September 23 – 25 Indianapolis, […]

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SLI Visits Shop.org in Las Vegas, NV

SLI will be at the Shop.org Annual Summit next week (September 15 – 17) in Las Vegas, NV. We are a silver sponsor so you will see our name on the information kiosks around the exhibit hall. The kiosks will help you find your way around the conference. Drop by booth #107 to find out […]

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The Turing Test and search

I saw an article by John Ferrara discussing how Alan Turing’s ideas apply to search (thanks to Daniel Tunkelang from Endeca for pointing this out on his blog). John observed that people often expect search engines to understand them in the same way that a person would. While search engines aren’t able to do this, one […]

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Interview with Daniel Pfeffer from Lighting by Gregory

We have just released an  interview with Daniel Pfeffer from Lighting by Gregory. They are one of the oldest lighting companies in Manhattan with over 150,000 products. Maintaining accurate information for this many products creates lots of headaches. Listen to Daniel talk this and issues with running a fast growing website.

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