Making Search Work: - Implementing Web, Intranet and Entreprise Search

List of contents

Foreword - Tony Byrne 1. Search must work 2. How search works 3. The search business 4. Making a business case for search 5. Specifying and selecting a search engine 6. Optimizing search performance 7. Search usability 8. Desktop search 9. Implementing web search 10. Implementing search for an intranet 11. Enterprise search 12. Multilingual search 13. Future directions Appendix. Search software vendors

About the author

Martin White BSc HonFCLIP FRSC FRSA is Managing Director of Intranet Focus Ltd (www.intranetfocus.com) which he founded in 1999. He has carried out over 100 intranet projects in the UK, Europe, North America and the Middle East, run workshops on intranet management and enterprise search management and keynoted at many conferences around the world. He has been a Visiting Professor in the Information School, University of Sheffield since 2002, serves on the e-Content Committee of the Royal Society of Chemistry and is Chairman of the UK e-Information Group of CILIP.

Summary

Designed to help organizations to understand, specify and implement desktop, website, intranet and enterprise search applications. This book covers: how search works; the search business; making a business case for search; specifying and selecting a search engine; optimizing search performance; search usability; desktop search; and more.

Product details

• Authors: Martin White, White Martin, Martin Whitel
• Publisher: Facet Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2007
• EAN: 9781856046022
• ISBN: 978-1-85604-602-2
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Mathematics, Library & information services, Library and information services, Business mathematics & systems, Business mathematics and systems