Summary
To assist with the task of retrieving information, search has been primarily a keywordbased endeavor, where searchers have attempted as best they could to retrieve relevant documents accurately by matching up the keywords in a given query with the same words in the documents. We are now seeing more promotion of improvements to better achieve accurate and relevant search results through "smart query modification," which allows for variations in spelling (through sophisticated pattern search) as well as allowing for use of synonyms of query terms. Ultimately, what a company's users are most interested in is ensuring that they retrieve documents that best reflect the meaning of their queries. Accounting for synonyms and closely related terms in searches is a very good way to ensure that no important documents will be missed.
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'Findability': The Key to Enterprise Search
The enterprise search business has evolved significantly over the last few years as mainstay vendors and some new entrants jockey for market share and the opportunity to enhance the findability of information from within numerous company data silos. The market itself, however, has grown slowly over the last years despite increased interest in search and related capabilities (such as classification, navigability of structured data, etc.) As a result, many vendors in the space increasingly distance themselves from the pure-play search vendor to present themselves as unstructured information mana...
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