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

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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.

Subject Search Server (SSServer) Searchtools Report Updated
Subject Search Server indexes local text and HTML files only, handles many languages and character sets. It has a technical and ambitious interface, offering control over the length and number of extracts to display, as well as defaulting to fuzzy search — matching parts of the query terms rather than the more standard exact match — which can be changed in the search form. Although it’s free (with a link to the Kryloff site) on Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, it lacks a robot spider for indexing via HTTP, has less-than-user-friendly search form and results pages, and has no admin interface, using only configuration files.

Fluid Dynamics Search - Searchtools Report Updated
The Fluid Dynamics Search Engine is a Perl CGI script that performs nicely on sites below 10,000 pages. It can crawl links or read a local file system to gather text, HTML and PDF files, and includes extensive controls for excluding pages. Search supports Internet query operators, Boolean operators and quotes. There’s an option to allow public submission of URLs for topical portal search, and the admin is all done via browser interface. Only $40, runs on Unix, Windows, Mac OS X, and the documentation is excellent.

DolphinSearch - Searchtools Report Updated
DolphinSearch, with an unusual search algorithm based on neural networks and dolphin research, this search appliance is designed for legal research and corporate compliance, and integrates into an enterprise document management system. (May 3)

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i411 - Searchtools Report Updated
i411 is a faceted metadata search and browse engine, capable of scaling to very large deployments, such as the DexOnline yellow pages site, which uses it for both search results and browse navigation. The most recent version adds a web crawler to the local file and database connectors, a natural language module that can extract entities from queries and provide concept-based spellcheck, more flexibility in the search flow, and a SiteOptimizer analytics and reporting module to expose site dynamics and user behavior.(Disclaimer: I consulted with DexOnline and helped them choose the engine among a very strong field of candidates.)

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.

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