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What's New
Volume 3 Number 3 - Spring 2006
There is a new forum http://www.searchdev.org for people at who are tasked with implementing enterprise search applications using technologies including those from commercial vendors including FAST, Autonomy, Google, Cold Fusion, and Endeca; as well as for open source engines like Lucene and Nutch. Currently the forum is implemented using Yahoo Groups to provide areas for posting as well as for controlled discussion mailing lists, but the forum can be accessed from its URL at http://www.searchdev.org.
Posting of useful tools has just started; but if you have created tools that could be of use to other enterprise search developers, join today and help build the utility of the new forum.
On May 1, Autonomy announced that K2 Version, based on the IDOL kernel, was available for Early Evaluation.
In a press release on their site, Autonomy also announced a Lifetime Support Option for existing K2 customers under support agreements that would apparently continue to provide support for existing versions of K2.
Moving from the older K2 kernel to the IDOL kernel provides some exciting options for K2 customers. IDOL provides linear scaling with multi-threaded 64-bit architecture as well as access to the existing IDOL functions which support a wide range or extended capabilities.
It seems that this announcement indicates forward progress since the User conference in January. To request an Early release program, contact your Autonomy sales team.
New Idea Engineering, Inc. (NIE) will be exhibiting at the Enterprise Search Summit in New York City May 23-24. This year, NIE will be showing how its Search Data Quality Audit and Search Best Practices Evaluation can improve relevance, increase user satisfaction, and help deliver the promise of enterprise search.
New Idea Engineering and partners Groxis and FAST Search will be sponsoring a cocktail reception on Tuesday evening May 23. We also have extra complimentary passes to the exhibits area; call us at 408-446-3460 if you want to see the latest in search technology and trends.
Stellent, Inc. announced it has integrated OEM products from FAST Search with Stellent(R) Universal Content Management(TM) to provide Stellent customers with another enterprise-class search and retrieval platform. FAST InStream is designed specifically to increase the value of enterprise applications and boost return on investment by leveraging the power of the FAST Enterprise Search Platform (FAST ESP(TM)) technology within OEM environments.
Stellent utilizes the FAST technology to search unstructured information within documents, Web pages, email, presentations and similar content, as well as the metadata for the unstructured information. In addition to offering a traditional search user interface and results presentation, the integration with FAST InStream provides metrics on how the information is distributed across relevant categories, and allows users to easily filter the results based on those categories. It also provides related search terms to help users discover previously unidentified data and relationships between information.
Alexa announced the availability of the Alexa Web Search Platform to allow web site owners to provide customer web search capabilities that meet their specific interests.
The Alexa Web Search Platform provides public access to the vast web crawl collected by Alexa Internet. Users can search and process billions of documents -- even create their own search engines -- using Alexa's search and publication tools. Alexa provides compute and storage resources that allow users to quickly process and store large amounts of web data. Users can view the results of their processes interactively, transfer the results to their home machine, or publish them as a new web service.
The beta program public commercial access to provides the billions of documents maintained by Alexa. Subscribers can implement ring search or community search and fully control their users' internet search scope.