Good search engines functionalities for relevant and quick search results

[Ray Matthews]

Stu's evaluation is very informative and I do hope that he share's his
report with the list.

While some universities and individual state agencies have chosen Inktomi
for site search and classification, the consensus that I've gathered from
state governments which have considered the Inktomi/CCE engine is that the
cost is prohibitive for larger scale projects such as statewide portals
which spider and index hundreds of thousands of pages.

The less discriminating, but more budget conscience, may want to consider
the Blue Angel Technologies' Metastar Suite and Microsoft's MS-Find-It Site
Server product for metadata harvesting projects. The state libraries of
Texas and Illinois are two that have opted for the former, and at least half
a dozen other states have chosen the MS-Find-it product for their statewide
GILS projects.

Ray Matthews
Government Information Coordinator
Utah State GILS Project

Utah State Library
250 N. 1950 W. Suite A
Salt Lake City, UT 84116
Voice: (801) 715-6752
Email: rmatthew at state.lib.ut.us

on 3/29/01 8:12 PM, Stu Baker at stubaker at northwestern.edu wrote:

> At Northwestern University we have a campus wide committee charged to
> evaluate and recommend a search engine for use for the entire campus.
> After much evaluation, testing and review we finally settled on
> Inktomi Search Software. We looked at commercial products, open
> source software (including HTDig) and remote search services.
> Besides, scalability, ease of administration and good results, we
> found that Inktomi could be tuned much better than any of the other
> search engines we tested when using metadata. Their Content
> Classification Engine (CCE) is also something that is very
> interesting in terms of providing an automatic means of creating
> browse structures based on rules and classifications that you can
> define as "topics". They have a java based API as well so you can
> write your own hooks into the system.
> 
> Our Library has also purchased the Inktomi Search software to use as
> our search engine and  potentially for digital library initiatives.
> The ability for Inktomi to index XML document stores was a very
> enticing feature.
> 
> We are in the midst of finalizing our report which I would be glad to
> share when it is complete. In the meantime you can look at our
> prototype search site at <http://search.library.northwestern.edu/>.
> 

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> on 3/29/01 12:22 AM, Stéphane Dudart at dudart at bse.ucl.ac.be wrote:

>...We would like to place a search engine on our website. This one has a lot of
> html files and it grows day by
> day. We are currently establish a keyword and description metadata system to
> the site to control
> searching.
> What functionnalities search engines must have for a quick search and a
> relevant result?
> We also look for case studies and local search engine lists.
> 
> Thank you for your help
> 
> Stéphane D.
> 
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