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Check out these excellent resources on search originally published on other ITI Web sites. 1) A podcast interview with blinkx founder Suranga Chandratillake on how video search is expanding from enterprise to consumer applications, with implications for all; 2) an article by Stephen Arnold on how to decide if outsourcing your enterprise search activity is right for you; and 3) a presentation from KMWorld/Intranets 2005 on Taxonomy Development by Wendy Phos. Just follow the links to these selected resources from ITI's Web content collection.

PODCAST:  "Maximizing the Potential of Video Search," with Suranga Chandratillake, Founder, blinkx.  The convergence of increased broadband penetration and the explosion in user-generated video have made effective video search more valuable than ever. The founder and CTO of blinkx discusses the evolution and future of video search in the consumer arena and the opportunities it presents for targeted video advertising.  Listen now (mp3).   Courtesy streamingmedia.com.

ARTICLE:  "Should Your Enterprise Outsource Search?," By Stephen E. Arnold.  Many IT professionals and Webmasters expect search to be baked into their existing applications. What's delivered is a search soufflé that disappoints. Those responsible for Web site search are beginning to seek a foolproof recipe: enough flexibility to meet a Webmaster's demands for features, easy deployment and customization, and a range of pricing options.  Read now (HTML).  Courtesy KMWorld.com.

PRESENTATION:  "Taxonomy Development and Design: The How Tos", by Wendy Pohs, Consulting IT Specialist, Search/Taxonomy Integration, IBM Corporate Intranet.  Read now  (POWERPOINT).  Courtesy KMWorld/Intranets Conference (Additional presentations from 2005.)  KMWorld/Intranets 2006 Web site.

Zoom Information, Inc., a search engine for discovering people, companies, and relationships, has announced the general availability of its Tools and Developer Resources Center. ZoomInfo will deliver its people and company information to users whenever and wherever they need it. These integrations are immediately available for download at the website.

AOL has announced that ZoomInfo was chosen to power the people and company search for AOL's new business-oriented instant messaging offering, the AIM Pro service. AIM Pro is free to all Internet users and can be downloaded from ZoomInfo's Resources Center or directly from AOL. AIM Pro users looking for background information on a new acquaintance, business partner, or vendor can find what they need at the base of the AIM Pro Buddy List feature. By selecting the People Search icon, users have access to ZoomInfo's index of over 31 million business people and two million companies.

The ZoomInfo Tools and Developers Resources Center also includes downloads for Firefox and Intellext. As ZoomInfo continues to grow and focus on providing valuable content to its users, the Tools and Developers Resources Center will continue to provide the most up-to-date list of these services.

(www.zoominfo.com/tools; www.aol.com/aimpro)  

NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Japan's mobile communications company and its eight subsidiaries have launched a keyword search service that will enable users to perform searches from the Japanese iMenu portal for access to i-mode sites. The keyword searches will be free for all i-mode users. The service will also provide access to information from websites other than i-mode.

(www.nttdocomo.com)

NEC Magnus Communications has developed 3D spatial search technology for cell phones in collaboration with NETDIMENSION, CAD Center, Asia Air Survey, Asahi Kasei Microsystems, and CyberMap Japan. The mobile solution enables users to access information on facilities, ranging from restaurants and accommodations to train stations and hospitals, by pointing at objects appearing in 3D maps on a handset display. Maps are updated along with geographical information obtained from global positioning and electronic compass systems. The NEC subsidiary expects this solution to be used in m-commerce and sightseeing services.

(www.necmagnus.com/index.html)

The market is starting to take notice of ActiveMedia Essentials, a digital asset management (DAM) offering and service from ClearStory Systems targeting departmental work groups or small organizations.

ActiveMedia Essentials provides a relatively inexpensive, pay-as-you-go solution for digital media—photos, graphics, marketing materials, presentations and video. Because it is a software as a service (SaS) solution, all that's required is a Web browser for companies or departments to quickly and securely organize and manage digital media for sales teams, distributors, partners, agencies or other external users.

The service is based upon ClearStory's robust enterprise DAM product, ActiveMedia, which is built on the company's pure J2EE, services-oriented architecture solution, Enterprise Media Server platform.

ClearStory cites the following benefits of ActiveMedia Essentials:

• easy deployment in a matter of hours;
• securely management of all digital media assets (images, graphics, publishing files, video);
• elimination of costly CD burning/shipping and slow FTP sites
• easily sharing and collaboration on digital media within your company and with partners for faster time to market;
• rapid uploading, search, retrieval, transformation and management of more than 70 file types;
• instant and secure distribution of large files worldwide;
• elimination of IT and infrastructure concerns because of the hosted nature of the offering;
• easy transition to ActiveMedia 7; and
• low monthly subscription cost.

Another product introduced a couple of months ago is starting to extend its horizons. Global support organizations are beginning to fully exploit the capabilities of the latest release from InQuira. Especially noteworthy in InQuira 7.3 are significant additions to the company's knowledge management product, InQuira Information Manager.

Also new in the integrated solution are enhancements for multi-language content and localization, content integration via Web services APIs, workflow process improvements, content usage analytics and user reputation models.

Further, a new Web services API facilitates content migration from external knowledge sources and between content channels within Information Manager. New content can even be dynamically transferred to Information Manager as it is created in other systems.

InQuira's Intelligent Search is now embedded within the Information Manager console for locating duplicate content and assessing the relevance of existing or new content in the search results for users (including content stored outside of Information Manager). InQuira 7.3 also introduces several new reporting features, including capabilities to survey users and usage reports that filter content usage by access type (e.g. searching, newsletters, product home pages).

dtSearch Corp., a supplier of enterprise and developer text retrieval software, has released a 64-bit beta version of dtSearch's primary developer component. The dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine for Win & .NET lets developers add dtSearch's "terabyte indexer" search functionality and file format support to web-based and applications through .NET 2.0 and APIs. The product provides search options, with hit-highlighted file format display. The dtSearch Engine supports distributed or federated searching across multiple data sources, and includes .NET 2.0 API access to dtSearch's built-in web Spider.

(www.dtsearch.com)

IBM has introduced two entry-level versions of search and content integration software. IBM webSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Starter Edition and webSphere Information Integrator Content Starter Edition help customers access information throughout the enterprise.

IBM webSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Starter Edition provides business-focused search. It analyzes and indexes information stored throughout an organization and allows users to search intranet portals, databases, public websites, and file systems to obtain results.

webSphere Information Integrator Content Starter Edition provides access to content sources and workflow systems. This allows users to access content and metadata stored in multiple systems. It is designed to enabling customer service agents to work with customer and product related information.

(www.ibm.com/software/data/discovery/launch.html)

Fortiva has introduced what it says is the first search performance guarantee for archived e-mail, ensuring instant search results regardless of the amount of data stored.

The company explains the guarantee is made possible by its grid storage and distributed search architecture, which allows users to search through archived data with the speed and ease of an online search engine. In addition to ensuring efficient legal and regulatory discovery, this capability allows Fortiva users to improve productivity by providing search functionality directly from Outlook, says Fortiva.

With the new search performance guarantee, Fortiva promises that 95% of all customer search requests will occur within five seconds or less. In the event that the customer experiences slow search performance, Fortiva will credit the customer a pro-rated portion of his or her annual billing amount.