links: Forbes re Unified Access, ecommerce search, autonomy idol search, users search skills limited

• A Vision for Unifying Access to Data and Documents - Forbes [Attivio]

  Describes Attivio's combination of unstructured and structured data for a new kind of BI. ... entity data and the sentiment analysis and other analysis techniques become part of the meta data for the unstructured data. This allows the unstructured data to be presented as structured data. You can do relational joins between the structured and unstructured data to answer questions like: “Find all negative product reviews that mention both the iPad and our top-20 best sellers.”

  tags: BI enterprise site search engines search vendors

• MagnetStreet attracts sales with improved site search - Internet Retailer (SLI systems)

  Consumers using site search browse about 11 more pages per visit than shoppers who don’t, and remain on the e-commerce site  nearly 13 minutes longer.

  tags: e-commerce site-search search vendors search engiens

• Autonomy IDOL Universal Search product page

  "IDOL Universal Search provides users with a simple, personalized search experience tailored specifically to their unique requirements. In many typical environments, content may be spread across disparate internal data repositories and systems as well as external content sources and engines. Users are forced to conduct multiple, repetitive searches or risk missing crucial information. With Universal Search, a single query quickly federates unified results across systems in an intuitive, easy-to-navigate Web interface. Users get the big picture quickly through advanced visualization and dynamic categorization for a faster, more thorough exploration of results."

  tags: search vendors enterprise search engines federated

• Incompetent Research Skills Curb Users' Problem Solving (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

  Results from a usability test - only 1% of the time did users change search strategy.  So search engines need to concentrate on improving reliability of simple search results.

  tags: research exploratory search user experience

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