The Siteforum Docfather search engine is now part of the SFS-Software Siteforum Online Enterprise Suite.The Harvest suites of web crawling and robot spidering tools are no longer being developed. They were some of the first developed in the field, and were widely used in the 1990s for locating and collecting information using multiple standard protocols.Rutersearch is gone: it was a personal project and is no longer distributed.

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.

Jig & toggle jig manufacturers in the UK
From low cost toggle jigs to complex specialist builds, HBC Engineering Solutions offer a total in-house solution. Large or small projects, professionally managed.

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.

Small updates to Search tools reports
We’ve updated the following reports on search engines large and small in the last few weeks: i411 has changed its name to Intelligenx and added autocatagorization and multiple language support. Engenium now has OEM library and automatic clustering module. FreeFind now has wildcards for excluding URL paths from indexing, indexes common office document file formats, relevance weight adjustments for URL paths (with wildcards), and some really nice indexing reports — URLs extracted, server response, status, and which URLs are actually in the searchable index. HomePageSearchEngine now indexes more file types. Doclinx now has a web monitoring agent, with support for speech recognition, for research and competitive intelligence, and a language analyzer. Boolean Search now runs natively on both PPC and Intel Mac OS X systems, includes web-based admin, spellchecking and match term highlighting in search results, template and AppleScript integration for search results formatting, standalone search server, and regular expressions in queries. Crawl-it remote service is still being supported. Datagold is no longer a separate search, it’s part of an online archiving suite. Educasoft has no indication of continuing development

Presstool manufacture, press tool making & optimisation
With the latest CNC technology, HBC offers a fast, accurate tool making solution including in-line tapping tools, radial form tools, progression tools, pierce & blank tools, jigs, toggle jigs and fixtures, tool optimisation / optimization and varification. Once complete, tools will be rigorously tested using extensive in-house facilities…

tooling: mould tools, presstools, product design, tool design, engineering & manufacture
Mould tools or presstools, HBC Engineering Solutions offer a total tooling service under one roof. Every aspect is undertaken, from product design, through tool design & manufacture including product & tool optimisation & monitoring. A professional project management team…

where has Entopia gone?
One of my clients is interested in Entopia, so I was taking a look.I tried to go to the web site and it was replaced by one of those placeholder spam sites which pops up several spammy windows. It seems like the kind of thing that might have viruses, worms or trojans, so I’d suggest against opening the site in IE, or really, at all on a Windows machine.No one answered at one phone number, the other two I found were disconnected.Casualty of the recession? Acquired by someone? It’s a mystery, and I’m curious.ETA: The Wayback Machine (archive.org) has an actual home page as of June 13, 2006 and an empty page as of July 1 of that year. I always thought they were promising more than they could deliver, so this is perhaps confirmation.

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