Enterprise search platforms and strategy
Enterprise search makes an organization's information -- whether data, documents or other types of content -- easier to find among employees and internal users. Get up to speed with the latest news and expert advice for your enterprise search strategy.
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01 Nov 2024
Best enterprise content management software of 2025
When buying enterprise content management software, businesses have several products to consider. Here are some of the leading ECM platforms to evaluate. Continue Reading
By- Geoffrey Bock, Bock & Company
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16 Jul 2024
How to develop an ECM strategy and roadmap
Deploying an enterprise content management system requires careful forethought. Before implementing an ECM platform, enterprises should follow these steps. Continue Reading
By- Geoffrey Bock, Bock & Company
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16 Jul 2024
How to develop an ECM strategy and roadmap
Deploying an enterprise content management system requires careful forethought. Before implementing an ECM platform, enterprises should follow these steps. Continue Reading
By- Geoffrey Bock, Bock & Company
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15 Jul 2024
search operator
A search operator -- sometimes referred to as a search parameter -- is a character or string of characters used in a search engine query to narrow the focus of the search. Continue Reading
By- Stephen J. Bigelow, Senior Technology Editor
- Ivy Wigmore
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14 Jun 2024
enterprise search
Enterprise search is a type of software that lets users find data spread across organizations' internal repositories, such as content management systems, knowledge bases and customer relationship management (CRM) systems. Continue Reading
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09 May 2024
5 real-world use cases for enterprise search
It's possible to build a successful enterprise search strategy that helps employees find critical data fast. Check out these examples from real businesses that improved their search strategies. Continue Reading
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17 Apr 2024
5 benefits of enterprise search
With a proper enterprise search strategy in place, organizations can improve their employees' efficiency and ensure customers have positive experiences. Continue Reading
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26 Mar 2024
8 top enterprise search engines
Whether an organization wants to improve its internal or external search strategies, an enterprise search engine can help users find information and protect data more easily. Continue Reading
By- Christine Campbell, The Alpha Content Company
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28 Feb 2024
How businesses should deal with enterprise search issues
Enterprise search issues frequently complicate user experience with CMSes. However, these challenges have various solutions to help organizations improve their search experience. Continue Reading
By- Jordan Jones
- Scott Robinson, New Era Technology
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22 Feb 2024
What is the role of generative AI in enterprise search?
Enterprise search employs AI to enrich content, identify objects and organize information. Yet, the rise of generative AI is likely to transform these processes even further. Continue Reading
By- Geoffrey Bock, Bock & Company
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08 Feb 2024
How a content tagging taxonomy improves enterprise search
Creating an enterprise taxonomy can help users more easily find the content they need when searching through files in a content management system. Continue Reading
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18 Jan 2024
semantic network (knowledge graph)
A semantic network is a knowledge structure that depicts how concepts are related to one another and how they interconnect. Continue Reading
By- Alexander S. Gillis, Technical Writer and Editor
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18 Jan 2024
Baidu
Baidu (百度) is a Chinese technology company. Its primary business is internet search in the China market. Baidu also provides other internet services and artificial intelligence (AI) development. Continue Reading
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15 Nov 2023
What IT admins and office workers get in MS 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365's Copilot assistive AI features come with a big price tag, but experts are bullish that they could return the investment to users -- and more. Continue Reading
By- Don Fluckinger, Senior News Writer
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11 Oct 2023
New Box Hubs uses AI to curate content, target users
The vendor adds a new internal publishing system to its stable of content management tools. It enables users to curate and publish select content within an organization. Continue Reading
By- Shaun Sutner, News Director
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10 Oct 2023
OpenText's Aviator AI services 10 years in the making
OpenText's AI services for content, operations, DevOps, security and digital experience represent a blend of homegrown, acquired and licensed technologies. Continue Reading
By- Don Fluckinger, Senior News Writer
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02 Aug 2023
Will AI-generated content affect SEO best practices?
Content marketers that want to embrace AI-generated content should know how the technology affects SEO best practices and new guidelines on AI tools from major search engines. Continue Reading
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26 Apr 2023
cloaking
Cloaking is a technique where a different version of web content is returned to users than to the search engine crawlers. Continue Reading
By- Pat Brans, Pat Brans Associates/Grenoble Ecole de Management
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14 Apr 2023
CDN (content delivery network)
A CDN (content delivery network), also called a content distribution network, is a group of geographically distributed and interconnected servers. Continue Reading
By- Kinza Yasar, Technical Writer
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13 Apr 2023
Adobe adds new Acrobat extension PDF tools in Google Chrome
The updates let Google Chrome users alter PDF documents by adding comments, markups, highlights, signatures and image cropping all from the browser window. Continue Reading
By- Mary Reines, News Writer
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28 Feb 2023
ClickUp 3.0 built for scalability with AI, universal search
The new platform moves to the modern cloud infrastructure and offers a streamlined inbox, an AI-supported writing tool and universal search to access files across many apps. Continue Reading
By- Mary Reines, News Writer
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28 Feb 2023
Microsoft MyAnalytics
Microsoft MyAnalytics is a personal analytics application in Office 365 that enables employees to gain insights into how they spend their time at work and how they can work smarter. Continue Reading
By- Rahul Awati
- Alexander S. Gillis, Technical Writer and Editor
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06 Dec 2022
search engine marketing (SEM)
Search engine marketing (SEM) is a method of promotion and advertising to help companies' content rank higher among search engine traffic. Continue Reading
By- Nick Barney, Technology Writer
- Lauren Horwitz, Cisco
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30 Nov 2022
search engine results page (SERP)
A search engine results page (SERP) is the list of results that a search engine returns in response to a specific word or keyword phrase query. Continue Reading
By- Nick Barney, Technology Writer
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10 Nov 2022
search engine
A search engine is a coordinated set of programs that searches for and identifies items in a database that match specified criteria. Continue Reading
By- Ben Lutkevich, Site Editor
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09 Nov 2022
How to incorporate social media into SEO strategies
While social media marketing and SEO seem like two separate practices, when used together, they can enhance any organization's digital marketing strategy. Continue Reading
By- Griffin LaFleur, Swing Education
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19 Aug 2022
knowledge base
In general, a knowledge base is a centralized repository of information. Continue Reading
By- Ben Lutkevich, Site Editor
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01 Aug 2022
googol and googolplex
A googol is 10 to the 100th power, which is 1 followed by 100 zeros. While this is an unimaginably large number, there's still an infinite quantity of larger numbers. Continue Reading
By- Pat Brans, Pat Brans Associates/Grenoble Ecole de Management
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19 Oct 2020
How automated content tagging improves findability
Companies that use AI to automatically tag their metadata can improve findability of content across the entire organization. AI tagging vendors can help businesses get started. Continue Reading
By- Laurence Hart, CGI Federal
- Jonathan Bordoli
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21 Jul 2020
What to consider when developing a corporate taxonomy
Finding information efficiently within a company is key for user productivity. Businesses should develop an enterprise search strategy to improve content navigation and discovery. Continue Reading
By- Sarah Amsler, Senior Managing Editor
- Jonathan Bordoli
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09 Apr 2020
Enterprise search software comparison
Enterprise search has always been both a necessity and a challenge, and vendors have sought to bring improvements to the market by adding AI to their products. Here's an overview. Continue Reading
By- Scott Robinson, New Era Technology
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23 Mar 2020
How can a long-tail keyword strategy improve marketing efforts?
Businesses looking to improve their digital marketing efforts might consider a long-tail keyword designed to home in on specific products and services. Continue Reading
By- Scott Robinson, New Era Technology
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17 Oct 2019
WebPurify launches profanity filter for memes and images
WebPurify has launched a beta of its Optical Character Recognition Profanity Filter Service to identify and block profane images on sites and apps with user-generated content. Continue Reading
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12 Aug 2019
8 steps to building a website taxonomy
Building a website taxonomy can help make website content better categorized and more easily searchable by users. Here are eight steps to building your own website taxonomy. Continue Reading
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15 Jul 2019
Using AI in content creation can streamline publishing
Companies using AI in content creation can generate short-form material automatically, which frees up humans to handle more complicated tasks. But there can be drawbacks. Continue Reading
By- Scott Robinson, New Era Technology
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18 Mar 2019
What are some applications of AI in content management?
Content management systems in the healthcare and legal industries use AI to automate tasks, saving businesses the time and money spent on employees to do the same work. Continue Reading
By- Scott Robinson, New Era Technology
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15 Jan 2019
Open source search engines attract developers
The enterprise search market is evolving and offering new options, such as open source and AI. Discover the benefits of these platforms and how companies are using them. Continue Reading
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07 May 2018
Adding artificial intelligence bots to Cortana for Office 365
AI bots aren't just for requesting songs and definitions anymore. As enterprises look for ways to bring virtual assistants into the workspace, Microsoft's Cortana stands ready. Continue Reading
By- Christine Campbell, The Alpha Content Company