Trexy Search Engine

The first FAB for 2007

Megan Hamilton — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:24:00 +0000

The first Flag and Bell for 2007 was a great success last night.

The pubs proved to be a good venue for the all new and regular FAB attendees to network and exchange ideas and various industry thoughts.

The quiz was a tricky one, ending in a three way tie breaker. The most challenging question was:
'What name did the Firefox project first use for their browser, which was publicly available for testing in September 2002'?

Stuck...the answer is phoenix.

Details for next month's can be found here.

EUSIDIC conference

Megan Hamilton — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:48:00 +0000

Nigel has been invited to speak at the EUSIDIC conference in March.

EUSIDIC is an acronym for The European Association of Information Services.

The conference which is to be held in Roskilde, Denmark, aims to group together leaders in the information industry.

The title of the conference is: " What will be the impact of Web 2.0 and Lib 2.0 applications on user services in library and information services management developments.

We are looking forward to it.

BBC Backstage Interview

Nigel Hamilton — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:25:00 +0000

Just before Christmas I attended the BBC Backstage Christmas Party.

It was great to catch up with members from the flag-and-bell.com and london.pm.org.

While I was there I was interviewed about Trexy.

Christmas on the Cluster

Nigel Hamilton — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:35:00 +0000

We're working hard to prepare the cluster so we can have a nice calm holiday.

One of our monitoring tools shows flashing green lights if all is going well and red lights if a node is in trouble. We just had a wave of machines turn red! As the monitoring tool flashed green and red we couldn't help but notice it looked a bit like a Christmas tree!!

I thought I'd been a good boy this year, "Santa can I have a calm cluster for Christmas please?" ;-)

2006 Search Roadshow Comes To An End

Megan Hamilton — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:05:00 +0000

As it’s everyone’s last day in the office for the year, we decided to do a bit of a folder clean up. Putting the conference folders away has brought back a lot of memories.

What a year it has been! Take a look at the Trexy Search Roadshow 2006 - we've compiled all our blog entries of the conferences here:

27 February - 2 March, Search Engine Strategies Conference, New York
30 - 31 March, Search Engine Strategies Conference, Munich
10 - 12 April, ECIR Conference, London
9 - 11 May, Internet World Conference, London
23 - 26 May, 12th WWW Conference, Edinburgh
31 May - 2 June, Search Engine Strategies Conference, London
7 - 10 August, Search Engine Strategies Conference, San Jose
10 - 12 September, ASIDIC, New Port Beach
27 - 28 September, AdTech, London
10 October, CILIP London Evening Meeting, London
16 - 17 October, Internet Librarian, London
25 - 26 October, Linux World, London
15 – 16 November, Yellow Pages Today Conference, Vienna
28 - 30 November, Online Information, London

It’s been a great year for Trexy and we look forward to 2007.

The Trexy Team Celebrates Christmas

Megan Hamilton — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:45:00 +0000

We had a great time yesterday celebrating Christmas onboard the Bateaux London.

It was a beautiful day to cruise the River Thames while enjoying the festivities.

It was a great way to see the year out.

Merry Christmas.

Following The Awards...

Megan Hamilton — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:46:00 +0000

We have just received some pictures of the BCS Awards dinner that took place last week.

Here's Nigel receiving the award from Graham Brookes from the British Computer Society.

And of course the group shot of the winners!

We have had some mentions about us in light of winning the Online Information and British Computer Society award. Check them out:

Trexy wins British Computer Society Award - Big Mouth Media
Trexy - The Gaol House Blog
Trexy and Turbo 10 - New Trails in Search - Ask Kalena
Sharing Knowledge on the Web - International Science and Technology

Christmas arrives at The Rotherhithe Office

Megan Hamilton — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:14:00 +0000

It’s only 2 weeks until Christmas and the Trexy office finally has a tree.

We have also finalised our first ever Trexy Christmas cards.

The card shows Trexy blazing trails in the remotest of places.

Trexy Version 2 - No AJAX?? - Shock Horror!

Nigel Hamilton — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 17:06:00 +0000

AJAX is a not-so-new-really way of updating a web page with Javascript - our sister search engine, Turbo10 used Javascript extensively on the client-side for topic clustering, results buffering and fast presentation - and all this in the pre-AJAXian dark ages - circa 2003!

AJAX is useful for things like google maps but I have rarely seen it used well in other places. So, "shock horror" there will be no AJAX in the next release of Trexy!

I hope this means we qualify as definitely NOT "Web 2.0" - Phew! ;-)

Most of the key ideas behind Trexy come from 1945 not 2005.

Trexy Wins British Computer Society Award

Megan Hamilton — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:32:00 +0000

Last night The British Computer Society named Trexy the 2006 winner of the Services Category in the prestigious BCS IT Professional Awards.

The three main criteria used for judging the Technology Awards were:
* the element of originality of the system
* the level of exploitability
* the level of usage to date

We were up against some pretty tough competition including: - Royal Bank of Scotland,
Cosmic , Aliiance and Leicester.

Nige and I are thrilled to win this award. It is a great way to end a very busy and rewarding year.

I was also thrilled to hear some other news that Nigel announced last night - but I'll let him tell you about it.

Fingers Crossed!

Megan Hamilton — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:49:00 +0000

Last week we received our Medallist Certificate accompanied by a category medal for the British Computer Society IT Professional Technology Awards in the Services category.

Nige and I are off to the awards dinner tonight at The Grosvenor House Hotel in London. Here they will announce the overall winner.

We are up against a tough group including COSMIC, Alliance & Leicester plc and The Royal Bank of Scotland.

Fingers crossed!

Firefox 2.0 launch party tops off a great week

Megan Hamilton — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:06:00 +0000

Last week was a busy and exciting time for the whole Trexy team.

Some highlights of last week included:

* Thomson's party on Tuesday night at The Natural History Museum.

Rena, Anna and Jennifer at the Museum's entrance.

*Nigel speaking at the Online Information Conference

*Winning the Best Speciality Search Award.

*Working at the Trexy booth. After doing over 10 shows this year, we were happy that the last one for the year was such a success. We had an enthusiastic crowd and we gave away about 700 goats!

*Attending the Firefox 2.0 Launch Party and meeting some other tech people including the hosts of the party, Glaxstar.

The FAB celebrates Christmas

Megan Hamilton — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:22:00 +0000

Last night we celebrated Christmas early at the last Flag and Bell for the year.

The winners of the quiz, Irretreivable, were lucky enough to have first choice from a large selection of Christmas gifts.

Nigel and I would like to wish all the FAB attendees a Merry Christmas.

Looking forward to 2007!

Feel free to send any questions through for the next trivia quiz for January.

Trexy Wins Best Speciality Search Award

Megan Hamilton — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:36:00 +0000

Nige and I attended the Online Information Awards last night.

We were shortlisted in the category for Best Speciality Search alongside these companies:
- Exalead
- Vivisimo
- Factiva Search 2.0
- Nexidia Rich Media Search

It was great to hear Trexy announced as the winner. Both Nige and I went up to collect the award as they played James Bond music in the background. It was like the Oscars for the Infomation Industry.

"The Goo" helping with Version 2

Nigel Hamilton — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 06:29:00 +0000

We're busily working away on version 2 of Trexy. Behind the scenes we use a system called The Goo to help stick things together. It helps me to traverse all the software artefacts that make up Trexy: templates, Perl modules, tasks, ideas, bugs, pages etc. - and it remembers a trail too.

If you want a new feature for Trexy, let us know (support@trexy.com) and we'll try to stick it in the next version!