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those of who know me work, will know that im very passionate abt information retrieval. My Project 3 ( late 2003) at IIT was to come out with a “alternate file explorer for windows” , i called it Viewport. ( i wish to write abt it in detail later in this blog)… at work im working out an interface for Enterprise level restore/retrieval systems…

my 3 recent craze has been TAGS, TWIKI,SOCIAL SOFTWARES. and tags are my favourate. there are amazing develeopments happening in this zone. wish to do my contribution some time….as of now..let me keep quoting from different sources atleast.

finding your file: Read full article
Everybody has immense trouble finding information in their hierarchal folders on their hard drive. Documents and digital objects have more than one meaning than the one folder/directory, in which they reside. Sure there are short cuts, but tracking down and maintaining shortcuts is insanely awkward. Tags will be the step to the next generation of personal information managment.

Blog entry titled:windows-explorer-alternative Read full article
…..That feature doesn’t exist–even as we round the tenth year of the Microsoft graphical user interface.The problem, I think, is that two of my most-used desktop applications over the course of a day are a web browser and a database package. Over time, I simply get used to being able to use feature sets available in both……

Drowning in Unstructured Data full article
The best approach, I thought, was to organize or add structure to documents as they came into the system. If you didn’t spend time upfront to organize your data, what could you expect but chaos? Garbage in equals garbage out.

Desktop search applications
Keeper Finders-Five new programs that let you search your hard drive without having a seizure.-Dec. 31, 2004
Desktop search applications work a lot like the search function that’s already built into the Windows Start Menu, but they’re much quicker. They’re also smarter about sifting through your e-mail, music files, browser history, and other special data formats. You probably won’t find all the Steely Dan songs in your iTunes library or every PDF with the phrase “owner’s manual” using the Windows search. If you use the right desktop search application, it’s a snap.

Related links:
x1 search used by yahoo desktop bar

Searching for information IIT- Illinoise instute of technology Phd area
Databases are often designed based on computational and linguistic ideas, without concern for user purpose or process. The questions people ask, either of each other or of information systems, are often casually and imprecisely answered. This leads to acquisition of and belief in poor-quality answers, or frustration in framing the question or search query. Research of user search interactions may provide other approaches to the search for information, alternative forms of feedback, or alternative structures within which information resides.

http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2005/05/20/2683/enterprise-search-still-a-technology-conversation