Category: Thought Leadership
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Want to Buy the Best AI Tools? Study Victorian Bathrooms
Back when beetle wings on dresses was cool, indoor plumbing was brand new. And exciting. As a result, those with the $$ to get it wanted to show it off. Instead of having the pipes hidden inside the flooring and...
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Introducing Caffeine!
Caffeine is a newsletter by me, Andrew McKay. I think you’ll love it, and here’s why. Each issue (after this one) will deliver: 1. Salesforce search tips that improve how your business runs or 2. Thought leadership that improves your...
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[VIDEO] The Best Way to Search SalesforceⓇ and Connected Systems
Want to dramatically improve your ability to search in Salesforce? You’ve come to the right place. This article will show you how to… It also features a video demonstrating these capabilities with search experts Sid Probstein and Andrew McKay. Let’s...
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Webinar Salesforce Search: Building a Successful ISV Product on Salesforce
KonaSearch is a Salesforce search engine that actually understands how to curate data in an intelligent contextual way for the purpose of some particular flow. So parts of what our product is implemented for is what we would call a matching engine. We walk through an example in recruiting executive search and staffing. We're searching both the structured data and the unstructured data together that combined relevancy score provides better results.
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Developer Webinar: KonaSearch and Swirl Metasearch
Andrew McKay, KonaSearch CEO, Excerpt from Webinar Taking a deep dive into enterprise search in Salesforce The search industry has been very interesting in the last number of decades. The old Fairbanks Center for Research still has meaning and only...
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[Video] Salesforce Search Query Examples
Salesforce Search Query Examples KonaSearch CEO Andrew McKay shows real examples of @salesforce search queries and how they benefit from deep search in the following ways: — Matching – finding search results by combining multiple data sources. — Automation...
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[Video] Evolution of Enterprise Search
Evolution of Enterprise Search KonaSearch CEO Andrew McKay tells the story of the evolution from the keyword, text, semantic, and AI, to deep search in Salesforce. He covers the following: Keyword search: manual tagging Text search: inverted index, nouns,...
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[Video] What is search?
What is search? KonaSearch CEO Andrew McKay explains what search means for Salesforce users. Enterprise vs. Consumer Search Federated vs. Indexed Search. The KonaSearch app for Salesforce enables a search that matches up what the user is asking, to what...
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Webinar: Boston Salesforce Developer Group – Breaking Down the Differences Between ‘Enterprise’ and ‘Consumer’ Search
KonaSearch CEO, Andrew McKay led a Speaker Series with the Boston Salesforce Developer Group breaking down the differences between ‘Enterprise’ and ‘Consumer’ Search.
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KonaSearch Scale: Searching Billions of Records Using Parallelized Queries
An enterprise search query engine is generally considered “performing” when at least 98 percent of its queries are less than 200 milliseconds and no query takes more than 2 seconds. To understand how this is possible when searching billions of...