The Enterprise Search Thrill Ride  August 29, 2008  Summer’s
ending, and the search engine thrill ride is accelerating.
Before you fire up your personal computer and send me an email
asking for juicy details, appreciate that I can only comment in
a broad way, making observations at a high level. If you have an
appetite for more information, you will have to dip into your
piggy back and engage me to show up and discuss the state of the
industry in a less chatty setting like this Web log.  Every
amusement park has a thrill ride. Kids love these roller
coasters, bungee jumps, and spinning barrels. Adults or people
with an aversion to fear are generally content to watch. Once in
a great while, a thrill ride goes wrong. The thrill seekers can
be injured and once in a while killed.  Search and content
processing companies are in a sense a thrill ride in way. The
launch of a company is filled with anticipation. Then the
company chugs along and usually gets a sale, and the process
repeats itself. At the end of the ri