This post was written by Daniel Halloway
ISYS® Search Software has released its next-generation enterprise search solution for intranets, websites, Microsoft SharePoint and custom web applications, the ISYS:web 9. Coming with a number of enhancements, the new product is designed to get more accurate search results in lesser time. The ability for content mining have also been expanded to make the content more comprehensible. Using its Intelligent Content Analysis, ISYS notes the key features about content collection, such as metadata patterns and entities. Thereby, it leverages these facets in the interface to deliver a better search.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is getting a shot in the arm with an upgrade that will see it gain new enterprise search features, as well as better performance. The update to MOSS 2007 comes as part of a wider rollout of usability and performance improvements to a number of Office products. MOSS upgraded version will have enterprise search features that initially shipped in the Search Server 2008 series — including federated search capability, a move that marks continued efforts by Microsoft to capitalize on the growing market for enterprise search.
Google Inc. has released a new version of its search appliance for businesses with enhanced end-user features such as personalized alerts and results ranking. The GB-7007 hardware-and-software bundle integrates storage hardware from Dell Inc. and features a self-contained search system for managing an organization’s internal electronic files. GB-7007 can index up to 10 million documents, as compared to 2 million documents that the product’s predecessor, GB-1001, could index. The new version is available in five-box and 12-box rack versions.
The Jackson Laboratory has deployed Oracle Secure Enterprise Search to provide its employees and Web site visitors with relevant, secure and customizable search results about the organization’s research, courses, resources and services. The new system searches thousands of electronic documents and datasheets and delivers relevant results to users through the organization’s public Web site. Oracle Secure Enterprise Search helps ensure search results display only the information that the users are authorized to view, and conserves resources by enabling The Jackson Laboratory to use the same system for public and employee searches.
July 28 will see a launch of big new search engine, called Cuil. Developed and run by the husband-and-wife team of Stanford professor Tom Costello and former Google search architect Anna Patterson, it’s pitched as bigger, faster, and better than Google’s flagship search engine in pretty much every way. After previewing it, Rafe Needleman disclosed on Webware that Cuil is a very serious effort, and has enough funding to get off the ground and become a player. According to Costello, unlike semantic search engine like PowerSet, Cuil analyzes the content of Web pages to divine their relevance to a search query.
Since the introduction of its enterprise search device in 2002, Google Inc. has been following a strategy of capturing the attention of those organizations which have ruled out the establishment of enterprise search systems, mainly due to the factors of cost and convolution. Lately, it has announced the launch of a novel version of its Search Appliance enterprise search device. The indexing capacity of the newer version will be as much as three times more than the current version. The latest enterprise search device, model GB-7007 would have the capacity of indexing as much as 10 million documents. It is an impressive speed as compared to the 3 million documents, maximum indexing capacity of the current product, model GB-1001.
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