Project ion+
Last year at Max I met with some of the project team for the Adobe ion+ search project. I was shown a very cool new search engine that Adobe was developing to parse out information from a multitude of sources including community sites, blogs, help docs, etc.
The official goal of the project is to help people find the best answer to their question, no matter where the answer may reside. If the best answer is on someone’s blog in the community, that’s the answer we want to help people find.
This week they have added a public beta of this project at http://community.adobe.com/ion/search.html. It is performing the search as I was shown by hitting a multitude of sources.
For instance search on NativeWindow and you will see a multitude of responses from many sources including this blog show in the results.
They had some additional very cool functionality that has yet to appear in the public beta. Some of this will include the ability to comment on content (like LiveDocs) and have these comments reviewed to ensure that they provide accurate helpful results.
I look forward to seeing the new builds as they are made publicly available.
April 25th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
I still reckon it needs to be sorted by date, as I suggested to Bob Regan when he was on the project.
there’s no point bringing up 3- and 4- year old results…
April 26th, 2008 at 8:09 am
I believe this will be addressed in a future release build.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Rich,
How do I contact you? I’ve been wanting to ask you about Flex users groups in Indy, as well as Herff Jones. Sorry for posting here but I couldn’t find a contact link on the site.