layoffs economy microsoft wade roush wrote xconomy received a report last week that the oslo norwaybased fast search division of microsoft which has a 180person outpost in needham ma and a smaller office in new york had laid off 25 people in its u.s. offices. we have now confirmed that report and have learned that 10 of the affected staff members were employed ......
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search is becoming the ubiquotous way of fnding information. thanks to google people are now customized to typing a few keywords in a single search field. and they want relevant answers. providing those answers is not as easy as it seems at a first look. a searching text is difficult because you need computers to do something which is hard to do for humans understanding written text. in orde.....
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ibm hp microsoft and oracle to the left of me. wellfunded saas startups to the right. here i am stuck in the middle with you. or the song went something like that. its been a rough go for the midtier of technology companies for the past few years as many finally succumbed to falling share prices shrinking tam total addressable market and categories wh......
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martin hipfinger aber twitter einen interessanten link erhalten welcher magliche features der kommenden version von sharepoint auffahrt. adrian bucher hat den beitrag mal ins deutsche abersetzt und die beschreibungen noch etwas erganzt feature beschreibung wahrscheinlichkeit quelle 64bit only sharepoint v142009 wird nur als 64bit versio......
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nella foto jardim arco do cego sono qui da appena cinque ore ma ad un primo sguardo lisbona conferma il detto per cui tutto il mondo a paese. i taxi non so siano tutti cosa i tassisti di lisbona comunque vi avverto se mai doveste capitare qui e vi si presentasse davanti la copia invecchiata dellagente poncharello alla guida di una mercedes c180 al cui specchietto a ......
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...e apras avoir rencontra a oslo le premier ministre norvagien jens stoltenberg. selon ballmer il faudra cinq ans a microsoft pour concurrencer de faaon frontale google httpwww .fastsearc h.com httpwww .live.com ......
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a search has become thanks to google the default way of finding information. at the same time search is difficult to implement and technology is immature. web content search interfaces differentiate between searching structured and unstructured content. in this post more information on searching structured content. structured content is content that is classified based on metadata such ......
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informationweek did a big story on enterprise search and used ni as their lead examplea note all the system info in the article that i fed them. and were getting a lot of fun out of graffs quote about how its easy to sign off on more resources forus were including that in every purchase req now. one of the reasons that our fast enterprise search program has......
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back in june microsoft announced a new european search technology centre at the cannes lions international advertising festival . late last week steve ballmer announced that the center will be based inthree european locations in paris munich and london. the new stc will be led by jordi ribas . the videos below include comments from steve ballmer. josa manuel barroso we......
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yesterday an event was organized by microsoft and fast around the search sales readiness. as more and more companies starting to see the importance of search in their organization the need for great search functionality is growing. microsoft itself has some great search server applications as microsoft search server express microsoft search server and microsoft office sharepoint server 2007. but.....
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leslie owens an analyst for forrester is this mornings keynote at taxonomy boot camp a related conference to kmworld intranets 2008. taxonomy impacts search in four key areasa query pipeline results pipeline userinteraction analytics indexing pipeline. evaluating search vendors against taxonomy criteria shows leaders including endeca fast . information access syte......
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the google search appliance which can make all of a companys data accessible through through a simple google search interface is getting an upgrade. there are a bunch of improvements being announced but the most attentiongrabbing involves size the capacity of a single search appliance box has more than tripled from 3 million documents to 10 million. thats a substanti......
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even back in january when microsoft agreed to pay 1.2 billion for enterprise search company fast search transfer it was mired in an accounting scandal and trading in its stock had been suspended. its aggressive accounting for phantom deals that never materialized earned it the moniker the enron of norway. but more sordid details keep coming out from some tenacious re......
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even back in january when microsoft agreed to pay 1.2 billion for enterprise search company fast search transfer it was mired in an accounting scandal and trading in its stock had been suspended. its aggressive accounting for phantom deals that never materialized earned it the moniker the enron of norway. but more sordid details keep coming out from some tenacious rep......
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microsoft live search blijft vastbesloten om de zoekmachinemarkt niet zomaar op te geven en blijft verder werken aan de verbetering van zijn indexering smechanism e en zijn zoekalgoritme. in een poging zijn zoektechnologie te verbeteren is microsoft overgegaan tot een overname van powerset . begin 2007 schreven we al over de semantische zoektechnologie die powerset aan het ontwikkelen was ....
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come molti sapranno fast uno dei produttori leader nellenterprise search a stato recentemente acquisito da microsoft al fine di potenziare ulteriormente il volume di fuoco espresso nelle tecnologie per la ricerca e con lovvia conseguenza di guadagnare una nuova fetta di questo interessante mercato.......
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jeff fried the vp product management at fast led an interesting session business transformation powered by search at the recent fast forward summit in boston. he set the context by saying that the magnitude of new information has help drive the growth of fast search. there are now 1300000000 users on the web and 100000000 active domains. jeff said that search can drive productivity by un......
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cannes france and redmond wash. june 17 2008 at the cannes lions international advertising festival microsoft corp. today announced plans to open a search technology center stc in europe in its fiscal year 2009. the new center will be designed to help accelerate microsofts investments in live search and disrupt the search and advertising marketplace to the benefi......
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seo is always on the minds of flash site designers. how well or unwell are flash sites indexed by search engines how at all google was the first engine to index .pdfs .docs other dynamic content and also flash through its inhouse methods. later fast became the first engine to index flash sites using the flash search engine sdk. today all major search engines use the sdk along with......
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the ceo of microsoft was on a secret visit to norway today. microsoft closed the acquisition of the norwegian search company fast search transfer yesterday and ballmer came to convince the employees that this would be a great opportunity for them and their technology. some fast employees have not been too enthusiastic about beeing bought by microsoft. i have heard some people compar.....
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microsoft corp. has completed settlement of its tender offer for fast search transfer asa provider of enterprise search solutions. microsofts plans to acquire fast were originally announced in january. fast will operate as a microsoft subsidiary with a dedicated enterprise search research and development center in oslo norway and offices throughout the world. john markus ler......
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...t. i might have completely the wrong end of the stick but didnt microsoft get its hands on something similar when it acquired fast last year blogged here is this it httpwww .fastsearc h.comfast database offloading solution product sh eet sjgpx. pdf.file im sure i remember reading about how fast could speed up dwstyle queries by loading all the data into an index id be interested to h...
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im going to be live blogging the steve ballmer keynote this afternoon at this url. keep this blog post bookmarked and start hitting refresh shortly after the keynote starts at 1pm pacific 9pm gmt. or simply tune in to the webcast 750kbps 300kbps 100kbps and watch it live yourself 104pm ray winninger my boss is on stage to announc......
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