Most organizations, regardless of their size or tenure, do not realize the difference between robust document management and “folders in the cloud.” Making content findable is the goal of any document management strategy.
Who would have guessed as little as ten years ago that social media sites would account for massive amounts of traffic on the internet? And it keeps growing. How long before it surpasses search as a driver of traffic?
Search engines are determined to provide users with as much information as possible. Some companies are forming strategic partnerships to create rich search results for better user experience.
Making content findable by users has become easier and more intuitive through semantic search, a technique used to determine the actual intent and contextual meaning for the keywords that a person types into a search engine. It works on the principles of language and is based on the context, substance, and intent and concept of the search phrase. Semantic search can also incorporate location, synonyms of a term, current trends, and other natural language elements as part of the search.
It is like half of an encyclopedia. If more people, businesses, writers, users, etc. are posting content to social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc., why isn’t Google indexing this information?
How important is search to you? Search is important, but is it a key component in information governance? These and other questions were posed in a SharePoint metadata survey conducted by Concept Searching.