Poor Data Quality Gives Enterprise Search a Bad Rap - Part 2: In September 2004, NIE's Mark Bennett presented a paper to the Silicon Valley Webguild about a well-understood problem in relational technology that has, until now, been completely ignored in enterprise search: data quality. This month Mark presents Part 2 of the presentation he started in our last issue. [More].

Searching with the Ultraseek XPA Java API While most people think of Ultraseek as the browser-based search solution, Verity does provide a Java API called the XPA Java Library. This month we show you a simple Java program to search Ultraseek collections from the Windows or Unix command line. [More].

Ask Dr. Search: Using a Thesaurus as a Knowledge Base This month Dr. Search shows how to benefit from a custom thresaurus in all of your user queries, not just those that use the <THESAURUS> operator. Remember to mail your questions to Dr. Search at support@ideaeng.com. [More].

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