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HEH 41: The Search Search

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The HEH dudes talk about what they got for the holidays, any new conference attendances and then dig in on a new site search tool for GVSU, who needs to move away from the Google Appliance.

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    • What did we get for Christmas?

    • Dan got a Nest Thermostat and a Chromecast
    • Daniel got socks and Wine and Beer
    • Scott got Bluetooth earbuds
    • Ken got an Amazon Fire Stick (doesn’t offer anything more than his current Apple TV)

      • Conferences this year?

      • Scott is doing a leadership workshop on campus (7 months) so no off campus conference this year
      • Daniel wants a developer conference for teams working together.
      • Dave is going to SXSWEdu
        • Another good one is Digital Summit (in various cities)
        • Ken is looking at ELUNA (library specific conference)
        • Dan is not sure yet but looking for a good developer conference (liked Smashing Conference a couple years ago)

          • Google Custom search updates for GVSU

          • Apache Solr
          • Elastic Search
          •  Others:
            • https://www.funnelback.com/product/search
            • https://swiftype.com/
            • https://cse.google.com/cse/
            • https://lucidworks.com/products/fusion-server/
            • https://www.elastic.co/
            • Conveo
            • LucidWorks
            • Searchblox
            • Search Technologies
            • Mind Breeze
            • Cludo (edited)
            • Bing Custom Search
            • Amazon Cloud Search

              • Scott is glowing.

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