Comments on: You can’t find it if it’s not findable http://federatedsearchblog.com/2008/07/07/you-cant-find-it-if-its-not-findable/ Covers topics related to federated search and the deep web Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:59:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Angel Maldonado http://federatedsearchblog.com/2008/07/07/you-cant-find-it-if-its-not-findable/comment-page-1/#comment-2573 Angel Maldonado Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:09:45 +0000 http://federatedsearchblog.com/2008/07/07/you-cant-find-it-if-its-not-findable/#comment-2573 I agree Findability refers to how easy is to make a piece of information findable, but this is neither the responsibility of those who create the system containing the data or those who create the data, such concept of "responsibility" should extend to the systems used to retrieve the data. Making it possible to find information involves a number of “responsibilities”, but trust the only responsibility of any software vendor is to make money. Secondly to offer useful software and within this context the more it helps to find information the better. Is not about responsibilities, is all about objectives. Achieving a high degree of Findability is a practical objective where methodology has a lot more to say than technology. I agree Findability refers to how easy is to make a piece of information findable, but this is neither the responsibility of those who create the system containing the data or those who create the data, such concept of “responsibility” should extend to the systems used to retrieve the data.

Making it possible to find information involves a number of “responsibilities”, but trust the only responsibility of any software vendor is to make money. Secondly to offer useful software and within this context the more it helps to find information the better.

Is not about responsibilities, is all about objectives. Achieving a high degree of Findability is a practical objective where methodology has a lot more to say than technology.

]]> By: Andreas Ringdal http://federatedsearchblog.com/2008/07/07/you-cant-find-it-if-its-not-findable/comment-page-1/#comment-2363 Andreas Ringdal Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:12:49 +0000 http://federatedsearchblog.com/2008/07/07/you-cant-find-it-if-its-not-findable/#comment-2363 Findability is the respoinsibility of those who create the system containing the data. Making it possible to find documents / making them searchable is the responsiblity for the Enterprise search vendor. In my opinion, federated search is about gathering available search results into one system and Enterprise search is about finding the unfindable. A complete Enterprise Search Solution contains both a search engine that indexes the unfindable sources, and federated search that gathers all search entry points. Andreas Findability is the respoinsibility of those who create the system containing the data. Making it possible to find documents / making them searchable is the responsiblity for the Enterprise search vendor.

In my opinion, federated search is about gathering available search results into one system and Enterprise search is about finding the unfindable.
A complete Enterprise Search Solution contains both a search engine that indexes the unfindable sources, and federated search that gathers all search entry points.

Andreas

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