Over the last few years two consultants have transformed our understanding of intranets. I'd first like to highlight the work of Jane McConnell, who through her Global Intranet Trends survey and report aggregates information on individual intranets to give managers a sense of how intranet development is proceeding world-wide, what are the emerging issues in enhancing the value of an intranet and what solutions are others finding to common problems of quality, relevance, impact and governance ...more

Just as I was thinking of packing up for the day Google announced the launch of the Google 6.0 Appliance. The focus of the announcement was very much on the scalability of the new version, with the capability of searching billions of documents. Much is made of the small hardware footprint of the appliance, as if this is a primary consideration in the selection process. Indeed it seemed to me that the product data sheet was an exercise in how many times the marketing staff could include the word scale in a seven-page pdf ...more

This blog sets out to list what I regard as a core set of resources for anyone involved in enterprise search.  I am sure that there are other resources that I have omitted and if you know of any please send me an email ...more