This was in early 2004, when only a handful of folks, notably Endeca on the enterprise search front, were trying to promote the benefits of faceted classification ("guided navigation"). In the coming months, I've been invited to write on a wide...
Autonomy, Fast Search & Transfer, IBM's OmniFind, Endeca, and upcoming rival Oracle's Secure Enterprise Search 10g. Google is synonymous with "search," everyone knows that, some people hate it and some people love it.
Guardian revamps search engine with Endeca. Part one of the series is Shopping Search Week 2005. AOL InStore Shopping http://www.instore.com/ AOL got into shopping search in a big way in September 2004 when it debuted its InStore Shopping service.
Endeca, Fast, Northern Light, and iPhrase are also briefly mentioned. Robert Weisman's article in the Boston Globe: In the shadow of Google takes a look at a few Boston search area companies including:
id=6476 Discusses online store search engines: Mercado, EasyAsk, Endeca, and Netrics, referring to the 2001 Forrester report. Includes evidence of the good results at Tower Records with Endeca, but finds few examples of faceted metadata usage.
