http://www.webmetricsguru.com/archives/2007/03/search-works-well-even-when-yo/ Web Analytics, Social Media and Art Musings Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:59:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.webmetricsguru.com/archives/2007/03/search-works-well-even-when-yo/#comment-1760 Mike Moran Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:41:01 +0000 http://www.webmetricsguru.com/2007/03/search_works_well_even_when_yo.html#comment-1760 <p>Thanks for the kind words, Marshall. The more I think about it, the more I think that search technology is becoming victim to its own success. People's expectations are almost magical now, and must be dashed by the disappointment of reality. I see the same thing in my day job as Product Manager for IBM's OmniFind enterprise search engine. People expect enterprise search to work as well as Internet search, when the same information economy just doesn't exist inside an enterprise. It will be interesting to see if people's expectations change because they learn more about search's limitations, or whether search technology can rise to meet today's out-size expectations. It should be a fun ride.</p> Thanks for the kind words, Marshall. The more I think about it, the more I think that search technology is becoming victim to its own success. People’s expectations are almost magical now, and must be dashed by the disappointment of reality. I see the same thing in my day job as Product Manager for IBM’s OmniFind enterprise search engine. People expect enterprise search to work as well as Internet search, when the same information economy just doesn’t exist inside an enterprise. It will be interesting to see if people’s expectations change because they learn more about search’s limitations, or whether search technology can rise to meet today’s out-size expectations. It should be a fun ride.

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