Hi all,
While I've not been an active blogger on SQLJunkies this year, I have actively monitored and posted feedback from time-to-time to this site as it contains some of the best information on and about the SQL Server community! With the recent launching of MSN Spaces, I have decided to transfer both my personal and professional blogging efforts to http://spaces.msn.com/members/jtkane/. This new blog is an experiment for me as I'm still gaining my *public* voice (other than in the newsgroups) as I will be posting both my personal observations as well as speak on SQL Server (7.0, 2000 and 2005) Full Text Search (FTS) from my many years of working with this technology.
Additionally, I have extended my research to cover not only SQL FTS, but Internet Search Engines (General and Vertical), Intranet Search (aka, Enterprise Search) software, web Site Search techniques and Text Mining using both SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 (Yukon). These are big topics that are worthy of a separate blog covering, the structured (database), semi-structured (XML), unstructured (text) worlds and the joining of these separate worlds is something that I firmly believe will come together in the next few years.
Along the way, I will check back here often to see what is happening on this most progressive blogging site. I'd also like to thank Danny Mack and others who have made this blogging site what it is today as I think that 2005 will be a most interesting year, not only for SQL Full Text Search, but for Microsoft and the SQL Server community!
Have a Happy & Safe Christmas!
John Kane