By Elizabeth Thede, Special for The Times USA Misconceptions about enterprise search abound. This article will attempt to resolve some common ones—and get you on your way to instantly searching terabytes. The first misconception is that unindexed search is as good as indexed search. For example, the application dtSearch® offers both indexed and unindexed…
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…
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 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…