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Search Tools Product Report

ES.NET 2004 (now owned by GoDaddy, was Innerprise Enterprise Search)

Product Description

Warning: this product has no indication of continuing development. After frequent updates in 2005, there are no releases after February 8, 2006. The customer forums contain numerous complaints about lack of support and further development.

Price: $499, $299 for each additional license, also offered as a remote search services starting at $19 per month.
Platform: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003. Supports Microsoft SQL Server (2000 or 2005) or MySQL v4.1 (or newer.)

Features

• Designed for portal and multi-site search engines.
  
• Runs as a Windows Service; controlled through your Web browser. Can be configured via Web browser from any location.
  
• Robot crawler follows links to discover pages across multiple web servers.
  
• Scales to millions of documents on multiple servers.
  
• Multi-threading; crawls and indexes collections concurrently. Can be set to continuously crawl and update indexed documents.
  
• Automated indexing and updating using built-in scheduler.
  
• Finds new documents to index; new documents are indexed and searchable immediately.
  
• Indexing can be set to sleep instead of stopping. When a new URL is added, it will automatically resume.
  
• Supports filters to handle DOC, PDF, XLS, RTF, DWF, DWG, WMA, WMV, ID3 tags for MP3s, more.
  
• Supports cookies, sessions, redirect pages and dynamic Web pages.
  
• Proxy server supported.
  
• Optionally caches documents, similar to Google; cached search results provide instant results for repeat searches.
  
• Keyword rules allow documents to be collected based on content.
  
• Configurable domain rules allow control over where the spider crawls. "Friendly crawling" limits spider from requesting more than one page per minute per domain.
  
• User defined tags using regular expressions to extract and search specific content within documents. Optionally indexes ALT and Comment tags.
  
• Definable maximum document size, file extensions, and domain extensions.
  
• Supports phrase searches with quotes and Boolean search terms.
  
• Supports many languages: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Norwegian, Romanian, Spanish and Swedish.
  
• Search results can be sorted by relevance, date or domain.
  
• Customizable look and feel for search results using HTML, .NET, and SQL.
  
• Logs crawler activity per collection. Email notifications when unexpected error occurs (i.e., SQL Server connection lost.)
  
• Detailed search logging, including query, count, search time, results found, more.

Articles & Reviews

• CMS Watch Enterprise Search Vendor List CMSWatch.com
  
  CMSWatch lists ES.NET 2004 as one of the 33 most significant products in the enterprise search marketplace.



• Go Daddy Acquires Innerprise WHIRnews Web Host News: November 30 2004
  
  Domain registrar and Web hosting company GoDaddy.com announced that it has acquired Innerprise.

Examples

• Legal Information Institute - A research and electronic publishing activity of Cornell Law School.
• Tribunals Service - UK site for Social Security and child support appeals.
• Grand Rapids Business Journal - Site for the Michigan business publication.