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Ron Friedmann has reported [Strategic Legal Technology :: Demise of Document Management?] that the UK firm Lewis Silkin is replacing their Hummingbird document management system with Sharepoint.

As I pointed out in my posts last week on the four types of document searches, they lose the critical fetch and recall searches to get a more effective research search. The traditional DM is great system for managing documents; it is not a great system for knowledge management.

I prefer the approach that Tom Baldwin at Sheppard Mullin has taken with layering the Sharepoint search engine on top of the DM system. This gives you the best of both worlds with the great management of the DM and the superior search of Sharepoint.

In response to my post on taxonomies and folksonomies, Matt Hodgson offered a solution of topic maps as a way to deal with the unstructured chaos that comes along with folksonomies.

I have been looking at a similar approach of leveraging topic maps in my search for an enterprise search engine. Products like Recommind are able to create a relationship among words and phrases in a document and equate them as synonyms. So when you search for a “P & S” the search engine will return a “purchase and sale agreement”, “sale agreement”, and “purchase agreement” as well as a”P&S.”

The next step is to get them to recognize the folksonomy tags and create relationships among them as well as the words in the document. Effectively, the folksonomy tag would be just another piece of metadata for the document.

CIO.com has a detailed article on search engine marketing. Although it goes into detail about the use of a search engine marketing specialist, there is enough background information on how to enhance the relevancy of your website in search results.

The same techniques carry over to intranet searching as well, since most intranet search engines operate in a similar way. The need text in the html of the page.

The ABCs of Search Engine Marketing – ABCs

Google now allows you to create a customized search that will only search the sites of your choosing.

Ron Friedmann of Strategic Legal Legal Technology blog and Prism Legal Consulting used this to search the websites of the AmLaw 200 firms.

I created one to search the essential knowledge management sites. (Mentioned in my previous post)

Tim Stanley and Justia have launched of a free, searchable database of Federal Register Regulations, Proposed Rules and Notices.

This site allows you pick and choose the subject and topical content, as well as document type, from each daily Federal Register Index, and allows you to browse the content, and create a custom filter of specific content.

Even better, the site supports RSS feeds for each agency’s respective documents.

Internet search engines can, obviously find words. They can find images, although this does not work as well as a search for words (Google’s imagelabeler matching game is their way to better the search results).

Now there is a search engine crafted for finding sounds on the internet FindSounds – Sound Types

Need the sound of a banging gavel?

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