An overview of the problems enterprises have with finding information, including complex queries and multiple repositories. Search administrators recommend trying before buying, defining problems such as dynamic updates, repetitive language, context, scale and query options. Search engines mentioned include Ultraseek, Autonomy, the Google Search Appliance, and iPhrase.
General report on search and categorization tools. Praises company's marketing, wide range of products, mathematical algorithms, multilingual features.
Search On Information Week, January 20, 2003 by Tony Kontzer
Discusses the need for useful search engines in corporate intranets. Describes experiences in Ford's Learning Network using Autonomy; Bank One and Kaiser Permanente using the Google Search Appliance for simplicity, low cost and speed; KMPG UK's use of Verity K2 for sophisticated taxonomy and social networking; Gateway's implementation of iPhrase for support technicians; and EDS using Recommind for role-related search results.
Discusses the need for useful search engines in corporate intranets. Describes experiences in Ford's Learning Network using Autonomy; Bank One and Kaiser Permanente using the Google Search Appliance for simplicity, low cost and speed; KMPG UK's use of Verity K2 for sophisticated taxonomy and social networking; Gateway's implementation of iPhrase for support technicians; and EDS using Recommind for role-related search results.
Highlights solution providers, recognizes that Autonomy has a comprehensive information organization infrastructure using search as a key component.
Describes the value of search engines and categorization as essential elements of corporate portal infrastructures, to handle the "deluge" of information within enterprises. Quotes Aberdeen analyst Guy Creese who points out that without a good way to search, corporations would be "blowing their investment in the content". Covers recent announcements of search and categorization features by Autonomy, Verity, AltaVista, iPhrase, and Smartlogik (Muscat) .
Describes US federal Web portal managers desire for an automated categorization tool such as Autonomy, with some discussion of whether or not it was actually used by the FirstGov main portal site.
Autonomy
braced as Microsoft muscles in on fight for market Business Weekly
UK: March 7, 2001
Describes effect of Microsoft SharePoint on Autonomy's corporate market and general business issues. Includes a customer describing problems with product user-friendliness.
Describes effect of Microsoft SharePoint on Autonomy's corporate market and general business issues. Includes a customer describing problems with product user-friendliness.
In
Search of Intelligent Search: Page 3, The Relevance of Search Interactive
Week: November 6, 2000 by Charles Babcock
Part of a story on e-commerce and site search.
Part of a story on e-commerce and site search.
Firms
combine search tools to uncover the best answers ITWeek UK, February
10, 2000 by Kris Sangani
Describes both KnowledgeBox from DolphinSearch and Autonomy's Knowledge Server. DolphinSearch is based on cognitive and syntactical patterns of language, while Autonomy looks for mathematical patterns within documents and fits them with in a structured taxonomy. Analyst Ashim Pal looks forward to improved technology such as that pioneered by DolphinSearch, but suggests that organizations work on categorization and integration with document management systems.
Describes both KnowledgeBox from DolphinSearch and Autonomy's Knowledge Server. DolphinSearch is based on cognitive and syntactical patterns of language, while Autonomy looks for mathematical patterns within documents and fits them with in a structured taxonomy. Analyst Ashim Pal looks forward to improved technology such as that pioneered by DolphinSearch, but suggests that organizations work on categorization and integration with document management systems.
Discussion with Autonomy's founder, Michael Lynch and background on the software development. Includes a long description of Thomas Bayes and Bayesian probability theories in pattern recognition, including examples such as medicine and handwriting recognition. Describes how Lynch has used this algorithm along with neural network processing for document-similarity analysis and automatic categorization based on clusters of words, compared to human-generated taxonomies.
Summary of Autonomy features designed for corporate Intranets and EIPs.
Autonomy's technology can automatically categorize data stored in Vignette's StoryServer
Interview with Autonomy's CEO, Mike Lynch, describing the origins and background of the company and summarizing the various technologies.