There are three key principles that explain why site search just doesn’t perform like we expect it to. Over the next few weeks, I’ll dive deeper into each issue surrounding traditional search and offer my insights and experiences to help you understand why your search sucks, and how you can improve it.

There are three key principles that explain why site search just doesn’t perform like we expect it to. Over the next few weeks, I’ll dive deeper into each issue surrounding traditional search and offer my insights and experiences to help you understand why your search sucks, and how you can improve it.

The central focus of Gartner’s Symposium/ITxpo this week in Orlando is all about implementing what they’ve recently dubbed as a “pattern-based strategy”. According to Gartner, a pattern-based strategy “provides a framework to proactively seek, model and adapt to leading indicators, often-termed ‘weak’ signals that form patterns in the marketplace.”

“My Search Sucks!” — we hear this from prospects more than any other complaint. Coming from consumer search experiences on the web with the likes of Google, Yahoo, and new entrant Bing, these frustrated employees wonder why they can’t get better search results on their company’s website and intranet.

You’ve pLCROSS robably caught some of the hype about NASA’s latest Lunar exploration efforts. This morning they deliberately crashed a spent upper stage rocket booster into the moon in order to analyze the debris plume for traces of water.

According to a new consumer privacy study by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology at UC Berkeley, and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, two-thirds of Americans object to online tracking by advertisers. The study is apparently the first national telephone survey that explores Americans’ opinions about the controversial practice of behavioral targeting.

I admit it; I’m just not interested enough in my toaster to leave a review for others. My intuition tells me that I’m probably not alone; there are few things about my toaster that compel me to share my experience with others.