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During a recent client project, I was required to crawl several websites with specific requirements for each.  For example, one of the websites required: to have a meta tag content be used as a URL replacement for the actual URL, ... Read More...

Say hello to Norconex HTTP Collector!  At Norconex, we have always recognized the value open-source brings to software development, and to a greater extent, the world.   It benefits us when building custom solutions for our customers and ourselves.   As long-time ... Read More...

Over the last few weeks, I have had the opportunity to work and play around with the Google Search Appliance Version 7.0, and I must say that it’s an interesting piece of technology. Varying opinions, such as “Yeah, GSA is ... Read More...

Over the past few years we've seen a drastic improvement in search interfaces.  The development of ugly search boxes and incomprehensible search result screens should now (hopefully) be a thing of the past.  New search UI's are designed and developed ... Read More...

I’ll say it: enterprise search is expensive and takes time to do properly.   The bigger the number of different repository types, the more complex your architecture is, the more you have in-house solutions or archaic systems in place, the more ... Read More...

Series Introduction Regardless how many satisfied enterprise search customers we meet, it seems there are always “irritants”.   Many enterprise search customers have shared with us their frustrations towards their current search engine solution.  For some, frustration grows with their needs.  ... Read More...

Series Introduction Over the past several years, we've helped clients design, implement and maintain unique search implementations. A natural side effect of our search implementation work has been exposure to hundreds, if not thousands, of different approaches to implementing various ... Read More...

Norconex officially launches its Enterprise Search Discussion Group, based on the great Zendesk platform.   Reserved to federal employees, this discussion group is the place to share your enterprise search experiences and learn a lot from others.  Find out who else ... Read More...

It is no secret that Norconex is very fond of search analytics.  While you may understand the importance of gathering good search metrics, it may be more difficult to grasp how a product such as Norconex’s very own Search Analytics ... Read More...

Your organization has implemented a new search engine and things seem to be running well. Staff are able to search for and find documents that help them get their job done. Employee feedback has been positive, and people are overall ... Read More...