Presentations from the annual Infonortics Search Engine Meeting held for 2004 in The Hague are now available for viewing. All will be fascinating but in particular:
The Subtle Side of Retrieval - Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University, New York, USA
Search and Guided Navigation for Unstructured Content? - Peter Bell at Enteca
A Holistic Approach to Search - Tuoc Luong, Ask Jeeves
Convera: Fundamental Approaches to Categorisation - Iain Fletcher
Social Software and New Search - Stephen Arnold
Human Intervention in the Search Process - Martin Belam, BBCi Search
Turbo10: The Mechanics of a Deep Net Metasearch Engine - Nigel Hamilton, Turbo10.com, UK