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Volume 2 Number 6 - June 2005
Verity acquires desktop search vendor 80 - 20
Verity announced June 13 that they are acquiring desktop search technology from 80 - 20, an Australian vendor of search tools. Verity will use the 80 - 20 technology and desktop search engineering resources to create Verity Enterprise Desktop Search, to be released in the second half of 2005. This is no doubt in response to desktop search products from Google and Microsoft.
Verity says they will integrate desktop search with both Verity Ultraseek and K2 Enterprise. To participate in the beta program, contact your Verity sales representative or register on the Verity site.
New Idea Engineering Speaking at Two Conferences
New Idea Engineering will be speaking at two conferences in the coming months. Mark Bennett will deliver a talk on Search Engine Data Quality at The Information Quality Conference in Houston Texas September 19. His presentation "Poor Data Quality gives Enterprise Search a Bad Rap", is based on articles from earlier issues of Enterprise Search.
Miles Kehoe will participate in a panel discussion on integrating corporate security policies with enterprise search at the KM World conference in San Jose, California, in November 2005.
Inxight acquires assets from Intelliseek Inxight Software has completed its purchase of the federated search and alert technology product line, formerly called Enterprise Discovery Suite, from Intelliseek. The product line has been renamed Inxight SmartDiscovery Awareness Server. Inxight claims its new offering works out-of-the-box to search and monitor relevant content from online sources such as deep web sources like SEC filings and from public web sources such as CNET and MSN Search. It also allows enterprises to create brokers to new information sources, extending Inxight's product capabilities to a variety of other enterprise sources.