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.

Google Home tricks and games

• Akinator

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.