SearchTools BlogSearchTools Blog - LiveJournal.comAnalysis & Review of the Webinator Search Engine- April 24, 2007 In this review, I cover every aspect of the Thunderstone Webinator search engine, looking at what's possible, what's special and what's missing. I've been much helped by the posts on the Webinator support mailing list and the frank answers from Thunderstone's representative, as well as several working indexes on one of their test appliances. See my full review for details of indexing, access control, query processing, retrieval, relevance ranking, results page layout and search...http://searchtools.livejournal.com/74091.html IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition - new SearchTools Report- April 15, 2007 OmniFind Yahoo! Edition is a free search engine based on the open-source Lucene core, is a reasonably full-featured search that can index up to 500,000 pages, making it an interesting competitor to the Google Search Appliance, Autonomy Ultraseek and Solr, as well as lower-end search engines. Features include an automated install package for Windows and Linux, browser administration, a powerful web crawling robot, file system remote crawler, index support for over 400 file types (using the...http://searchtools.livejournal.com/73489.html Info Today Report: "Enterprise Search: Deployment, Usage and Trends"- April 12, 2007 A survey of 250 professionals connected to search in their enterprise has some enlightening results. They were a fairly wide variety of industries, organization sizes, departments and roles (described in detail in the report), so the results are generally applicable. This survey contradicts conventional wisdom by reporting that 62% of these enterprises have more than one search engine, with a 27% of having four or more search engines. In my view, this indicates the understanding that one...http://searchtools.livejournal.com/73323.html |