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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.)

Facebook’s Winning Game
Social games are the next big (addictive) thing. Just don’t call it ‘’Monopoly.'’

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)

Analysis & Review of the Webinator Search Engine
In this review, I cover every aspect of the Thunderstone Webinator search engine, looking at what’s possible, what’s special and what’s missing. I’ve been much helped by the posts on the Webinator support mailing list and the frank answers from Thunderstone’s representative, as well as several working indexes on one of their test appliances. See my full review for details of indexing, access control, query processing, retrieval, relevance ranking, results page layout and search reports, and my conclusions.

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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DataparkSearch - Searchtools Report Update
DataparkSearch is a free open-source search engine written in C by some smart people in Russia as an offshoot of the MnogoSearch project. The biggest strength of this application is how well it handles languages and character sets. It supports internationalized domain names and proper word-segmentation (tokenization) in many languages including Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai. It can perform language detection on both text files and user queries. Spellchecking, abbreviation and synonym query expansion are on a per-language basis. This search engine has some fancy Information Retrieval features like fuzzy searching, Boolean queries, and their own “Neo popularity ranking” based on neural network research and link analysis. Results templates include several innovative than simple listings (I’m not sure if I like them, but they’re interesting). It also has caching of the index files, search templates and the code, and can distribute indexes and search servers among multiple machines, for better responsive time.However, the code is distributed in source format for local compilation, and all the features are set via config files and runtime parameters — it requires some comfort with command lines and programming tools. But there’s an excellent manual and an active forum of users and developers.

IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition - new Searchtools Report
OmniFind Yahoo! Edition is a free search engine based on the open-source Lucene core, is a reasonably full-featured search that can index up to 500,000 pages, making it an interesting competitor to the Google Search Appliance, Autonomy Ultraseek and Solr, as well as lower-end search engines. Features include an automated install package for Windows and Linux, browser administration, a powerful web crawling robot, file system remote crawler, index support for over 400 file types (using the Inside Out system for file reading), query parsing recognizes Internet Query Operators and Boolean operators, provides a spellchecker, synonym and suggestions, and Lucene-based stemming. It indexes and searches Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. Searches can be sent via REST, and the results formatted within the admin interface, or sent back as ATOM, HTML with XSLT or XML, and linked to optional local document caching. Enterprise support is available from IBM. There are some first-release glitches, but it’s a well-designed package that’s easy to use interactively, with some powerful automation interfaces ready for those who need more flexibility. Definitely worth a look.

Google Launches Site Search Service for Business
Google’s Custom Search Business Edition uses the Google web search index limited by site or sites. It provides most of the Google web search features and is very cheap, only $100 per year for up to 50,000 pages, $500 for up to 500,000 pages. More here at my InfoToday article / more at the Searchtools Google Service report page.What do you think of it?

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