Re: intranet search standards

- Easy install
- Does not depend on an external web server that will invariable only index
half your pages
- Fast searching
- No advertising served up with the search results
- Is compatible with servers. (e.g. ASP or PHP scripts)
- Supports the document types that you have on your intranet, (e.g. PDF and
WORD).
- Wildcard searching ("zo*" and "zo?m" will find "zoom", etc.). new!
- Results are sorted in order of a relevance.
- Highlight matched words in search results
- Configurable number of results shown per page (eg: 10 results per page, etc.)
- Matching by ANY search terms, or ALL search terms.
- Support for ANSI accented foreign language characters. Eg. Á, ç, è, etc.
- Support for HTML character entities and numeric entities. Eg. &#accute;
á

<shameless plug>

It just so happens the we have written search engine software for intranets
that can do all this. Details are here,
http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/

</shameless plug>

---
David
Wrensoft.com


"Anthony D'Alimonte" <anthony.dalimonte (AT) sympatico (DOT) ca> wrote

Is there anyone out there that can point me in the right direction to come
up with a list of must haves and nice to haves for an Intranet search engine
requirements?

with thanks.... this is my first post, so not sure if this is asking too
much info......

That's a good list. I would these requirements, as well:
- can spider both Web-based and fileserver-based content
- indexes common office formats (Word, PDF, etc.) in addition to HTML
- can present text summaries of binary files and remote content, saving
the clickthrough
- provides single interface to silo'd information
- provides contextual navigation, in addition to keyword search
- lets you organize documents into arbitrary collections, for easy filtering
- customizable UI for "look and feel" integration

Check out Think Tank 23's Nav4. http://www.thinktank23.com

Steve

David Wren wrote:

- Easy install
- Does not depend on an external web server that will invariable only index
half your pages
- Fast searching
- No advertising served up with the search results
- Is compatible with servers. (e.g. ASP or PHP scripts)
- Supports the document types that you have on your intranet, (e.g. PDF and
WORD).
- Wildcard searching ("zo*" and "zo?m" will find "zoom", etc.). new!
- Results are sorted in order of a relevance.
- Highlight matched words in search results
- Configurable number of results shown per page (eg: 10 results per page, etc.)
- Matching by ANY search terms, or ALL search terms.
- Support for ANSI accented foreign language characters. Eg. Á, ç, è, etc.
- Support for HTML character entities and numeric entities. Eg. &#accute;
á

shameless plug

It just so happens the we have written search engine software for intranets
that can do all this. Details are here,
http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/

/shameless plug

---
David
Wrensoft.com


"Anthony D'Alimonte" <anthony.dalimonte (AT) sympatico (DOT) ca> wrote in message
news:UuVVa.4168$mv6.734755 (AT) news20 (DOT) bellglobal.com...

Is there anyone out there that can point me in the right direction to come
up with a list of must haves and nice to haves for an Intranet search engine
requirements?

with thanks.... this is my first post, so not sure if this is asking too
much info......

That's a good list. I would these requirements, as well:
- can spider both Web-based and fileserver-based content
- indexes common office formats (Word, PDF, etc.) in addition to HTML
- can present text summaries of binary files and remote content, saving
the clickthrough
- provides single interface to silo'd information
- provides contextual navigation, in addition to keyword search
- lets you organize documents into arbitrary collections, for easy filtering
- customizable UI for "look and feel" integration

Check out Think Tank 23's Nav4. http://www.thinktank23.com

Steve

David Wren wrote:

- Easy install
- Does not depend on an external web server that will invariable only
index
half your pages
- Fast searching
- No advertising served up with the search results
- Is compatible with servers. (e.g. ASP or PHP scripts)
- Supports the document types that you have on your intranet, (e.g.
PDF and
WORD).
- Wildcard searching ("zo*" and "zo?m" will find "zoom", etc.). new!
- Results are sorted in order of a relevance.
- Highlight matched words in search results
- Configurable number of results shown per page (eg: 10 results per
page, etc.)
- Matching by ANY search terms, or ALL search terms.
- Support for ANSI accented foreign language characters. Eg. Á, ç, è,
etc.
- Support for HTML character entities and numeric entities. Eg. &#accute;
á

shameless plug

It just so happens the we have written search engine software for
intranets
that can do all this. Details are here,
http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/

/shameless plug

---
David
Wrensoft.com


"Anthony D'Alimonte" <anthony.dalimonte (AT) sympatico (DOT) ca> wrote in message
news:UuVVa.4168$mv6.734755 (AT) news20 (DOT) bellglobal.com...

Is there anyone out there that can point me in the right direction to
come
up with a list of must haves and nice to haves for an Intranet search
engine
requirements?

with thanks.... this is my first post, so not sure if this is asking too
much info......