By Elizabeth Thede, Special for The Times USA The discovery of gold in 1848 in California spawned the Gold Rush of 1849. But finding gold today has less to do with wading through streams and more to do with effective text retrieval across terabytes of data. Here’s how to get started – no Western…
By Elizabeth Thede, Special for The Times USA In previous articles, I’ve gone on at length extolling the value of integrated full-text and metadata searching. (Please see, for example, USA Daily Chronicles.) Like what? Suppose that you are looking for ProjectX and ProjectY and San Francisco and not Cleveland in the full-text of all…
By Elizabeth Thede, Special for The Times USA Need to sift through terabytes of data? This article offers a step-by-step guide to using a search engine to find what you need. This guide uses terminology, etc. from the search engine dtSearch®. dtSearch’s enterprise and developer products can run “on premises” or on cloud platforms…
By Elizabeth Thede, Special for THE TIME USA With so many people working remotely now, the need for efficient access to shared data is critical. A text search engine can improve that access. dtSearch, for example, has enterprise and developer products that can run “on premises” or on cloud platforms like Azure and AWS…
By Elizabeth Thede, Special for The Times USA Previously, I addressed how a search index like one generated from the program dtSearch® is like a data treasure map, supporting both individual and enterprise-wide concurrent searching with instant hit-highlighted search results. That way, multiple individuals can use the same treasure map at the same time and…
INTERVIEW ON THE PRICE OF BUSINESS SHOW, MEDIA PARTNER OF THIS SITE. Recently Kevin Price, Host of the nationally syndicated Price of Business Show, interviewed Elizabeth Thede. This article discusses some of the issues involved with integrated full-text and metadata searching using as an example the dtSearch enterprise and developer product line. As general background, dtSearch products instantly…
By Elizabeth Thede, Special for TTU This article delves into the hidden text world of PDFs. This piece supplements a previous article https://www.thetimesusa.com/2019/04/29/what-lies-beneath/ looking at hidden text in Microsoft Office files, emails and email attachments. Both this article and the previous article examine hidden text from the perspective of a search engine, specifically dtSearch. Large…
By Elizabeth Thede, Special for TTU This article addresses hidden text from the perspective of a search engine like dtSearch. When you view a file or email in the program associated with that file, like when you view a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel, or read an email in Outlook, or look at a PDF…
By Elizabeth Thede, Special for The Time USA Many people have heard of Boolean searching, which relies on and/or/not connectors. For example, apple and (banana or pear) and not broccoli is a sample Boolean expression as it combines and/or/not with the keywords apple, banana, pear and broccoli. The purpose of this article is to…
By the Price of Business Show, Hosted by Kevin Price. The Price of Business is a media partner of this site A significant development in the world of file formats is not an everyday occurrence. But more than 25 years after Adobe created the PDF file format in 1993, there is a major new version of PDF:…
By Elizabeth Thede, Special for The Times USA When most people think of text retrieval, they think of word searching: alphabet soup or banana pie. And that is usually the main focus of text retrieval like dtSearch, which instantly search terabytes of Microsoft Office files, PDFs, emails with multilevel attachments, databases, Internet and Intranet data, and…