Daniel Tunkelang talks about Endeca, Search, and ‘Reconsidering Relevance’
In our latest podcast I talk with Daniel Tunkelang, co-founder and Chief Scientist of enterprise search company, Endeca. We talk about Endeca and then delve into some of the issues raised in a presentation that Daniel gave at Google’s New York offices earlier this year, exploring the lessons that search on the open Web might learn from the approaches that Endeca and others are taking inside the enterprise.
During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;
- Alta Vista
- American Express
- Apache
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- ACM SIGIR
- Autonomy
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Cover Flow
- Dublin Core
- Endeca
- FAST
- Google Search Appliance
- Hakia
- Home Depot
- Intel
- IBM
- Lucene
- MIT
- Microsoft
- Powerset
- ‘Reconsidering Relevance,’ slides from Daniel’s Google Tech Talk presentation on Slideshare
- Starbucks
- Daniel Tunkelang
- Walmart
- Yahoo!
- Yahoo! BOSS
This conversation was recorded on Tuesday 20 January, 2009.
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