Google Search Appliance now indexes Apps suite

Last Updated on Monday, 18 October 2010 06:40 Written by External Post Monday, 18 October 2010 06:40

The Google Search Appliance, an enterprise search device loaded with Google search software, is now able to crawl, index, and retrieve data stored in the company’s Apps hosted collaboration and communication suite. The new capability is made possible by
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Google tracks inflation with interwebs data

Last Updated on Wednesday, 13 October 2010 04:22 Written by External Post Wednesday, 13 October 2010 04:22

Google is developing a new-age price index that uses the company’s epic collection of web shopping data to provide an alternative means of calculating inflation. Whereas the official Consumer Price Index provides a monthly measure of inflation based on
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Twitter gets new back-end search architecture

Last Updated on Thursday, 7 October 2010 02:21 Written by External Post Thursday, 7 October 2010 02:21

Twitter engineers have developed a new back-end search for Twitter.com with open source index search engine Lucene, to improve the micro-blogging site’s search capability. The new technology replaces Summize’s relational database search engine, which was
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Online sales reach £4.4bn with 15% increase in e-tail

Last Updated on Monday, 20 September 2010 04:20 Written by External Post Monday, 20 September 2010 04:20

UK online sales increased 15% in August compared to the same month last year, according to the latest IMRG Capgemini e-retail sales index.British shoppers spent £4.4bn online during August – an increase of 15% and equivalent to £72 per person in
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Online retail spending hits three-year high

Last Updated on Monday, 23 August 2010 04:40 Written by External Post Monday, 23 August 2010 04:40

Online spending has beaten recession-era levels, with £5bn in spending and record year-on-year growth, according to the latest figures from the IMRG/Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index. The index, released on Friday, shows that online sales in July grew 18
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Online sales hit £5bn a month

Last Updated on Friday, 20 August 2010 01:40 Written by External Post Friday, 20 August 2010 01:40

Online retail sales hit £5bn in the month of July thanks mainly to rubbish UK weather pushing people onto the internet to book last-minute holidays. The travel sector was up 18 per cent on July last year – the same as the index as a whole. Booze sales
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Developing a Niche Online-Content Indexing System?

Last Updated on Sunday, 18 July 2010 12:00 Written by External Post Sunday, 18 July 2010 12:00

tebee writes “One of my hobbies has benefited for 20 years or so by the existence of an online index to all magazine articles on the subject since the 1930s. It lets you list the articles in any particular magazine orfor an article by keyword, title or
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New Google Search Index 50% Fresher With Caffeine

Last Updated on Wednesday, 9 June 2010 04:20 Written by External Post Wednesday, 9 June 2010 04:20

Ponca City, We love you writes ‘When Google started, it would only update its index every four months, then around 2000, it and would provide different results when searching for the same term from different Google data centers. Now PC World reports
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Sharp hike in use of internet video predicted

Last Updated on Wednesday, 2 June 2010 09:20 Written by External Post Wednesday, 2 June 2010 09:20

By 2014 there will be 46 million UK users of internet video, a jump of nine million compared to 2009, according to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index. Annual global IP traffic will exceed three-quarters of a zettabyte (767 exabytes) in four years, according
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Amazon Customers Most Satisfied Online Shoppers

Last Updated on Monday, 4 January 2010 03:15 Written by a2e Monday, 4 January 2010 03:15

Customers of the largest online retailers are more satisfied than ever according to ForeSee Results’ annual report on holiday shoppers.

The ForeSee Results E-Retail Satisfaction Index (U.S. Holiday Edition) jumped 7 percent to 79 on the Index’s 100-point scale, a new all-time high. Websites for Macys, SonyStyle, The Gap, The Home Shopping Network and Overstock.com had the greatest increases in satisfaction year over year, with all five seeing increases of 10 percent or more.

"Even in this tough economic climate, e-retail continues to be the bright spot in a dark environment and last year’s declines are proving to be the anomaly," said Larry Freed, president and CEO of ForeSee Results.



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