IBM, Yahoo corporate search
p2pnet.net News:- IBM and Yahoo are challenging Google and other corporate-search companies with OmniFind, an application which lets organisations search their own internal documents.
Billed as a “free new edition of OmniFind,” it allows users to query a limited number of documents, “but it will combine the results with web searches powered by Yahoo,” says ZDNet News UK.
“IBM hopes the service, being announced on Wednesday, bolsters its overall efforts to improve its dealings with small companies,” says the story, going on:
“More broadly, though, Yahoo and IBM expect their partnership to shake up the field of ‘enterprise search’, in which leading providers such as Google, Autonomy and Norway-based FAST are seeing forays from business software giants such as Microsoft, Oracle and SAP.”
And, “Thank-you cards are definitely in order,” believes InfoWorld. Available for Linux or Windows servers, “it installs in under five minutes using a Java GUI”.
Some, “may argue that IBM and Yahoo just surround the underlying open source Lucene indexing core with a nice interface – and want to hook you into upgrading to the advanced IBM OmniFind Enterprise products (which start at $18,750),” says the story, adding:
“I believe this perception doesn’t credit the significant work that obviously went into developing the finished Yahoo Edition, which adapts a lot of features from IBM’s other OmniFind engines. And it discounts the important benefit these companies are providing with a solid, simple (and supported) search solution that runs on enterprises’ existing hardware.
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Also See:
ZDNet News UK – IBM and Yahoo tie-up offers corporate search, December 14, 2006
InfoWorld – IBM and Yahoo give the gift of free search, December 13, 2006
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