Recently we experienced a severe performance problem with IE8 rendering one of our pages in the InfoCodex web interface. It was taking about 1.5 minutes (yes, minutes not seconds!) for the page to display.
All other browsers, Firefox, Chrome, Iron, Safari, Opera and even IE7, rendered the page within 1-2 seconds.
I finally tracked down the problem [...]
Theories and allegations are one thing – but it is functionality in practice that counts.
Suppose your documents have been indexed by Google Search Appliance. Make any search and note, e.g., the seventh search result. Then, change the access right for this document such that your user account has no read access anymore to this specific [...]
Enterprise versus Internet search
The assumption that similar approaches could be used in enterprise and internet searches “turns out to be surprisingly faulty” (Marc Strohlein: Executive Guide to Search, BusinessWeek, May 15 2006; see also Alan Cane: The future of search: It’s how, not where, you look, Financial Times, March 28 2007). The most import difference [...]
The term “cross-language search” is used in many different senses:
1. Some search engine providers claim to support multilingual or cross-language search if they can handle and index documents written in different languages. They search for the exact appearance of the entered search terms, e.g. “war” finds English documents referring to military actions and it finds [...]