Full-Text Search (FTS), Text Mining and all things textual...
My name is John Kane and I'm an independent consultant/author (or soon to be) as well as ex-Microsoftie who specializes in SQL Server's Full-Text Search (FTS) components. I have been researching and writing on a book about FTS in SQL Server 2000 as well as Yukon and related topics, such as Text Mining with Analysis Services (BI/OLAP) and all things textual. I'll be posting random thoughts on Search in general, SQL Server FTS as well as Web-based Search Engines and the convergence of structured and un-structured data search and other search-related news items I come across from time-to-time in my work.
I too am new at this blogging thing and want to thank the SQLJunkies folks for hosting this, so forgive me if I make the occasional goof, but you can see many of my postings (I'm one of the ones who reply) in the Fulltext newsgroup at microsoft.public.sqlserver.fulltext and I'll be presenting at the 2003 PASS Conference in Seattle, WA in November.
Regards,
John