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Search Tools Product Report

Dieselpoint Faceted Metadata Search and Browse

Product Information

Price: Contact company (relatively inexpensive)
Platform: Java (100% pure, JSE, J2EE), API / toolkit available.

• Designed primarily for online catalogs and ecommerce.
  
• Can index HTML, XML, pdf (Adobe Acrobat), Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and text files. Automatically extracts document metadata.
  
• Indexes XML in any format. Can break XML files into separate "documents" based on tags and retrieve all or part of any XML document. Supports special formats including ECCMA and Dublin Core.
  
• Authenticates username/password for crawling restricted sites.
  
• Integrated with company content management and product catalog software.
  
• Indexes databases as full text and includes field context.
• Dynamic incremental indexing adds items to the index immediately.
  
• JDBC connector to databases including DB2, Oracle, Informix, MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Cloudscape.
  
• Search either free text or parametric (using fields.)
• Offers spellcheck, optional synonyms, optional stemming.
  
• Search results are navigable using dynamically-generated menus generated by document attributes or metadata (faceted metadata search and browse).
  
• Relevance ranking can adjust results based on keyword hits in specific fields.
• Top-ranked results can be predetermined based on query keywords.
  
• "Suggestion engine" analyzes search query and content, suggests alternative, related and better problems.
  
• Keyword highlighting in search results. Provides document summaries with highlighted keywords.
  
• Support for 40 languages and 140 dialects in Unicode, including Asian languages. Stemming in Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. Plain text queries find words with diacriticals and accents, and vice versa.
  
• Optionally generates the list of all unique values in a field/attribute for a given search result, along with the number of items that have that value.
  
• Results can be viewed, compared, sorted, and filtered in table format, even if they have different sets of attributes.
  
• Administrator can start, stop, and monitor indexing visually; add and modify attributes with point and click; set searchability and other characteristics of attributes.
  
• Comes bundled with a web server and servlet container. .

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