Web, image, video, audio, directory, local, and news search services. Susan Feldman, research vice president of content technologies at IDC, pointed out that the relevance ranking is adjustable. Instead it uses OmniFind relevance ranking algorithms.
OmniFind Enterprise Edition provides more advanced features and capabilities, while OmniFind Discovery Edition includes natural-language queries, navigation, etc. And IBM is in the business of selling hardware, so as organizations max out existing server capabilities, IBM would be happy to oblige. The fine print is pretty specific in pointing out that this is not a desktop search product for a single PC. It's designed for searching internal Web sites, local and remote file systems, and the public Web.
Edition is an enterprise search product, not a desktop search product. As a result, it is recommended that you do not run the search engine for a production environment on typical notebook or desktop computers.
Crawling and indexing Web sites and file directories can use up to percent of your processor. Edition is optimized for use as an enterprise search server. It expects to be deployed on server class hardware and it expects to be able to make complete use of the system's resources to optimize its crawl rate and deliver very quick responses on many simultaneous queries from numerous users.
Desktop Search. In addition, X1 bundles the Yahoo! Toolbar and Yahoo! Web Search with the free version of the X1 Enterprise Client. Two additional reports that tell users what the most clicked search result is and what searches most often result in no clicks have been added.
Additionally, the new version of OmniFind has also resolved reported bugs in the previous version. Arnold Zafra writes daily on the announcements by Google, Ask. SEJ » Tools. The API guide adds another 28 pages full of coding examples; and the installation guide, at 13 pages, may be the smallest we've ever seen for an enterprise-class search engine.
In the actual product, help in the form of the manuals presented as HTML documents is available from just abut every page. The documentation is well hyperlinked for easy reading and it is easy to find what you are looking for. The only drawback for the entire documentation set is that there are some questions that just seem to naturally come to mind for anyone implementing the product in more than a trivial way.
For example, since OY! S only supports a single index, how can you have two or more different webs sites in the index and make sure you can search only one site at a time?
The good news is there is a reasonably active discussion forum, and some of the IBM engineers are active there and in their own blogs see Resources below.
We found the Java example would not compile using Java 1. We did implement a custom search form that uses some of the more advanced search options new to OY! S Version 8. We've based this code on sample work provided by Todd Leyba of IBM whose blog is among the resources listed below. Search with your question. Its introduction is perhaps a shot at the Google Search Appliance - Google did, after all, add new capabilities and lower the price of their "mini" not long after the OY!
S was announced. However, it's also an indication that the age of high-price, high-margin search technologies may be coming to an end. Overview The Business of Search. The Technology of Search. Publications and Resources. Services Vendor Selection. Enterprise Search Consulting.
Microsoft Enterprise Search. Google Enterprise Search. Advanced Technology Group. Open Source. Verity K2 Autonomy. Recruiting Recruiting Overview. Open Positions. The Search Network.
And even better is that it is FREE. Other potential uses include using it as the search engine for your own personal blog which I intend to do , using it to build your own recipe search engine only crawl the recipe sites that you like , or using it to only crawl files on your hard drive and make them searchable.
There is a lot of fun to be had here, so I recommend downloading it and giving it a try. And if you have any questions or comments post them to the forum, my collegues and I will be reading through them and answering questions. Troutmaster This is the blog for troutmaster. Edition Coverage ».
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