Avi Rappoport: Principal Consultant
1629 Dwight Way, Mail Code W
Berkeley, CA 94703
or use our contact form
phone: (510) 845-2551
Avi Rappoport, the Principal Consultant, is the leading authority on site, Intranet and topical portal search engines. Search Tools Consulting combines research in information retrieval with years in the software industry to bring a practical and straightforward approach to web search and navigation issues.
Rather than assaulting you with jargon, we want to work together, as a team, to make sure that you get the best tools and the fewest problems. Solutions are tailored to your organizational needs and budget, from relatively small sites to giant portals and Intranets. Many consultations can be performed by telephone, email and web access -- no travel expenses required. Special packages and rates for non-profit organizations are available.
- Search Tools Consulting Options
- Search Tools Consulting can help in any or all aspects of your site search engine implementation plan.
- Needs Analysis
- Anything from a simple discussion of your site or document collection up to a full specification process involving personas and scenarios.
- Product Selection
- Helping you select the search tool that best fits your needs and your budget.
- Implementation
- Working with web production or IT staff to install and configure a search engine, adapt to site-specific content issues, and design the user interface. Using iterative design to catch unanticipated problems.
- Training and Documentation
- Customized instruction and documentation for search administration staff.
- Continuing and Incremental Improvements
- Analysis of existing search engine via user testing, surveys, and log analysis, recommending specific changes.
- Maintenance
- Keeping your search system up and running, reports and metrics, Search Suggestions management, search engine tuning for best results.
- United States Library of Congress - extensive analysis of current and future search requirements, metadata integration, user experience improvements, and recommendations.
- Librarian's Index to the Internet - test and implement faceted metadata search and browse.
- VeriSign - search engine consulting for main site, international sites, intranets and sales extranet (continuing).
- Discovery Education - analysis and discussion of multimedia search and architecture issues.
- Virtuoso - analysis and consulting for database-backed travel site.
- Hewlett-Packard - extensive analysis and recommendations for very large intranet search.
- Blue Shield of California - search engine requirements analysis and implementation.
- QwestDex - online yellow pages faceted metadata search RFI, RFP and recommendation.
- MIT - site search advice
- Proctor & Gamble - intranet search evaluation
- Librarian's Index to the Internet - search user interface and spellchecker
- Hewlett-Packard - log file analysis and search implementation analysis
- National Cancer Institute - help choosing a portal search engine
- Epson America - research on filtering engines
- AlterNet - search engine for a growing topical portal
- 4D Inc., WebSTAR division - analysis of search engine code library to license
- Qode / NeoMedia - e-commerce online catalog
- Scient - search interface, content integration for health portal
- FirstDoor.com - search engine analysis
- DomainLock - search engine analysis
- KnowIt.com - search engine analysis
- McKinsey - portal search engine advice
- Fair, Isaac - intranet search recommendations
- Salon - search analysis and implementation of interface and functional improvements
- UltimateOffice.com - search engine analysis
- GreatEntertaining.com - ecommerce site search analysis, log analysis
- Working Assets - search engine analysis
- WinStar Office.com - due diligence analysis of search products
- ZotGroup - search engine analysis
- ZDNet - due diligence on search engine
- ProjectCool - search engine analysis
- HealthCentral - search engine recommendations
- iXL - analysis of MP3 file search needs
- DNA Files - search engine implementation
- WorldTrek Odyssey - search engine implementation
Industry Clients: white papers and analysis
For my conference presentations, articles and technical documents, see the publications listing.
- SLI Systems
- Google Search Appliance
- Siderean Faceted Metadata Search (formerly bpallen Teapot)
- Ultraseek (when developed by Infoseek and then Inktomi)
- MondoSoft
- AltaVista
- Convera (formerly Excalibur)
- Ripfire (acquired by Plumtree)
- Searchbutton.com (acquired by MondoSoft)
- Maxum (then developer of Phantom)
- Atomz (now WebSideStory Search)
- Utopy
- Ditto.com
- Cambridge Parallel Processing
Avi Rappoport: Principal Consultant
1629 Dwight Way, Mail Code W
Berkeley, CA 94703
or use our contact form
phone: (510) 845-2551
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