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Google Search Appliance and Mini - Searchtools Report Updated
I have updated my report on the GSA and Mini search appliances, with detail based in part on my recent experiences customizing a Google Mini. The report includes information on the pricing as far as I could find it, the terms of licensing, new features, links to informative documents, and features that are not included with the Mini appliance. Once I update my full product review, I will have a chance to pay attention to other search engines, and that will be lovely.

Search Conferences Listing updated
This list covers all the search and related related conferences I know about. At the Enterprise Search Summit West I will be doing a pre-conference workshop on Critical Success Factors (how search engines work and how to make them better), a presentation on Tuning Search using Analytics and a moderating a panel on Good Practices for Search User Interfaces. At the Web Builder 2.0 conference, I’ll be presenting on Web Site Search and the User Experience. If you are a reader of this web site, please come and say hi, and if you’d like an online presentation to your organization or company, I do those as well. To suggest a conference or the listing, please leave a comment and I’ll add it.

Exar Adds Rochester Electronics to Global Distributor NetworkStreetInsider.com (subscription), MI - Jan 21, 2008Authorized by over 40 leading semiconductor manufacturers, Rochester purchases all remaining finished devices, wafer/die and
supply chain review, Australia -The customers, which include Precision Australia, Total tooling, Purple Pig, Hamer Group, Freedom Wigs, APL, and Mintt Corporation, selected Infor ERP SL …::

Webetiser (formerly re.s@earch suite) Searchtools Report Updated
Webetiser, which comes in a free version, "Worx", and various paid versions (including those for distribution via CD or other media), runs primarily on Windows NT. It has indexing and configuration wizards using a Windows GUI, and the paid versions read Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Acrobat PDF files (via OLE). It can index local file shares, and offers a reasonable set of templates for results presentation, using a set of JavaScript files. It’s been around for a while as re.s@earch suite, and has some happy customers.

Closed-Loop Gripper offers intelligent operation.ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release), NY - Jan 21, 2008Founded in 1983, Applied Robotics designs and manufactures end-of-arm tooling and connectivity solutions intended to solve
SunHerald.com, MS -Authorized by over 40 leading semiconductor manufacturers, Rochester purchases all remaining finished devices, wafer/die and available tooling. …::

New Google hosted search with no advertising
Called the Google Custom Search Business Edition, this is a hosted site search, designed for small businesses with web site content, who don’t want the advertising displayed on the older Custom Search Engine. This version uses Google’s existing index of the Internet, searching all the pages they know about it on the specified sites including non-HTML file types, using their query language, retrieval and relevance algorithsm, and searching in multiple languages and character sets. Like the web search engine, there is no way to index pages protected by access control such as passwords or ACLs. The default interface customization is limited to a logo and colors of the results page border, title, background, text and links, but the XML results format is fairly configurable using the Google AJAX Search API. While there is no structure in place to display site advertising on search results, presumably one could do that very easily with XML results. Reports are limited to top queries and queries per day/week/month/all, but can be connected to the Google Activity Monitor site traffic analysis tool. Note that Google will not guarantee that they’ll crawl all of the pages of a particular site, update on-demand, or even update frequently. Using this service will not improve a site’s position in the Google.com search results. Pricing is $100 per year for up to 5,000 pages; $500 per year for up to 50,000 pages (both payable by credit card via Google Checkout). According to ecommerce-guide.com, it seems to go to a $15,000 per year fee for up to 1 million pages, but potential customers should contact the company. (Non-profits, university and government agencies can use the standard Custom Search and opt-out of advertising).

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