By Jonathan Young, Attivio, Special to ZDNet

Commentary–It seems as though there is a watershed event in the search industry every ten years or so. Although Lexis-Nexis first commercialized search in the 1970s, it took a decade of indexing advances such as skip lists and index compression to make indexing practical, and another decade of computing advances to give us billions of searchable documents on the Internet.
Ten years ago, Google totally changed the face of what was then the emerging concept of Web search using better ranking algorithms based on website popularity. This precipitated the bifurcation of the search market into two segments: Web search and enterprise search. As the Web search space came to be dominated by Google, the old guard (e.g. Verity, Autonomy, AltaVista, and FAST) turned to enterprise search. [Read more...]