(In Picture: Eric Gales, President of Microsoft Canada with NLC Senior Executives)
Congratulations NLC Team for winning two of the most prestigious Microsoft Impact Awards at the 2010 Microsoft Partner Network IMPACT Awards – Microsoft’s Choice Partner of the Year Award and Microsoft’s Marketing Innovation Award.
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How much is poor search costing your business?
Most websites have search engines. Many actually make life harder for visitors. As analyst Gerry McGovern noted recently: “The quality of search on many websites is awful. Most organizations would simply not countenance having their reception area in the mess that their search engine is in. Yet [...]
It’s that time of year again! If you don’t already have your ticket, you can still get a ticket for SES Toronto 2009 in time for Monday.
Here’s 4 great reasons to attend SES this year:
Learn New Things
One of the primary good reasons for attending SES [...]
On Thursday, March 12, 2009, non~linear creations (NLC) hosted a breakfast seminar jointly with Microsoft on Enterprise Social Computing & Sharepoint. Over 60 people attended from a variety of industries to gather insights and see a demonstration of NLC capabilities in delivering exceptional solutions around Enterprise Social Computing in SharePoint.
NLC has made a submission to the Microsoft Canada Ignite IT Awards. The competition recognizes and rewards the efforts of Canadian IT Professionals and Software Developers.
We are very proud of the solution we built for Service Alberta, an integrated CMS/.NET faceted navigation implementation. We transformed their outdated, performance-challenged website into a stable, [...]
The Google AJAX Search API is a great tool that we have been working with at NLC. It’s designed to make it easier for webmasters and developers to do two things:
Add a dynamic search box to your site, which includes Google Web, Image, Video, News, Maps, Blog, Book, and Patent search results
Build [...]
Earlier this week, I posted a blog comparing the approaches the Google Search Appliance and Microsoft Search Technologies take to optimizing the short tail of search. Today’s post looks at how you can address the mid-tail of searches by tilting the landscape of the search results.
The Google Search Appliance
Google backed away from their [...]
I recently spoke on Tuning Enterprise Search at the Gilbane SF show (you can view the tuning enterprise search slides here). In fine-tuning my slide deck, I found myself comparing the tools that the Google Search Appliance and Microsoft’s Search Server Express provide for tuning search results.
I’ll be posting my observations in three parts [...]
