{"id":201,"date":"2007-02-05T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=201"},"modified":"2007-02-05T10:00:05","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T18:00:05","slug":"search-desktop-search-cant-stop-information-overload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/search-desktop-search-cant-stop-information-overload\/","title":{"rendered":"Search: Desktop Search can&#039;t stop Information Overload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Nucleus Research\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nucleusresearch.com\/research\" target=\"_blank\">Nucleus Research<\/a> <a title=\"Desktop Seaqrch is not the Answer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nucleusresearch.com\/research\/g75.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that <em>Desktop Search is not the Answer<\/em>.\u00a0 95% of the users surveyed use some sort of desktop search, and two-thirds say that they are overwhelmed by <a title=\"Information Overload\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Information_overload\" target=\"_blank\">information overload<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that many companies continue to silo\u00a0information across multiple repositories, email stores, shared network folders and records management systems.\u00a0 50% of users are searching across more than five different storage repositories when looking for information.<\/p>\n<p>The Nucleus Research Report suggests that the best approach to reducing the overload of information is to consolidate the number of data access points.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Consolidate data repositories, creating a more centralized and one-stop structure.\u00a0 This can save time and potentially reduce IT support costs.<\/li>\n<li>Adopt\u00a0technologies like SOA to integrate and federate\u00a0multiple repositories.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Consider search tools like <a title=\"FAST\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastsearch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FAST<\/a>, <a title=\"Autonomy\" href=\"http:\/\/autonomy.com\/content\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\">Autonomy<\/a>, and <a title=\"Oracle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technology\/products\/oses\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Oracle<\/a>\u00a0that can crawl across multiple repostiories and present a common search interface.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Information Overload is not an easy problem.\u00a0 Last week at <a title=\"Demo 2007\" href=\"http:\/\/www.demo.com\/conferences\/demo07.php\" target=\"_blank\">Demo 2007<\/a>,\u00a0the final\u00a0session of live demonstrations was dedicated to startups trying to address the problem of \u00a0Information Overload.\u00a0 Two types of approaches towards addressing Information Overload were shown: collaborative tools that try to leverage knowledge from groups, and tools backed by sophisticated algorithms that try\u00a0to simplify information discovery and understanding.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the\u00a0new &#8216;smart search algorithms&#8217; presented at Demo 2007 included:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Digger.com\" href=\"https:\/\/digger.com\/?a=auth&#038;aa=login\" target=\"_blank\">Digger.com<\/a> demonstrated their <a title=\"TextDigger\" href=\"http:\/\/au.sys-con.com\/read\/329224.htm\" target=\"_blank\">TextDigger<\/a> product.\u00a0 TextDigger improves searches by being able to learn from the user about the meaning and nuances of words that the user intended.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Trailfire\" href=\"http:\/\/trailfire.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trailfire<\/a> introduced a bookmarking <a title=\"Trailfire\" href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2006\/08\/16\/trailfire-launches-advanced-social-bookmarking-tool\/\" target=\"_blank\">concept<\/a> more sophisticated than <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\">del.icio.us<\/a> that uses trails and marks that allow users to share a sequence of related web pages.<\/p>\n<p>But the bottom line is that the problem of &#8216;Information Overload&#8217; is continuing to grow and that the technology to address the problem is still 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