Search moves forward

It feels like the search business is starting to pick up. A couple of innovations I have seen recently excited me

Sophia Search the finally appears to blend the concepts of discovery and linguistics to create a very powerful enterprise search solution.

SearchMe provides an interesting visual approach to search has just entered private beta.

My old colleague Phil Bradley just penned a good case for taking a break from Google and using Exalead instead.

Given the growth in the market for search and the slow rate of change in the core Google offering, I am surprised not to see more innovation in this space, but it certainly feels like it is picking up in 08.