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

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.

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