[WEB4LIB] Re: Good search engines functionnalities for relevant

[Stéphane Dudart]

Thank you for help.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Stu Baker <stubaker at northwestern.edu>
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Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 5:10 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Good search engines functionnalities for relevant


> 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/>.