Price: Contact company. Platform: Windows NT, 2000, and XP, Unix: Linux 6.2 and above. Hosted service available.
Features
Web crawling module follows links to locate content on web sites.
File formats indexed include HTML, XML, PDF, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel.
Works with databases via ODBC.
Lotus Notes connector.
Geocoding for distance calculations
Auto-categorizes documents during indexing.
Supports UTF-8 and double byte Unicode. Extended ASCII/Unicode support for multiple languages
Configurable indexing permits scheduled updates.
Near-real-time relationship calculations allow incremental index updating.
Linguistics module for multilingual searching, concept searching and concept-based spellchecking.
Query processing include spellchecking, stemming, synonyms, spacing invariance, stop words, and lemmatization.
Natural language query parsing extracts entities such as location from queries
Supports search wildcards.
Keyword highlighting in search results.
Faceted metadata search engine shows attributes of result set along with listings.
Works with existing taxonomies and categories.
Preview numbers show how many results are in each category.
Dynamically determines attributes; multi-dimensional refinements, no dead-ends.
XML results and queries.
Multi-key filtering, sorting and ranking of results. Offers extended category search.
Data visualization for result validation.
Scales to millions of documents with architectural scaling among distributed clusters of inexpensive servers.
Browser admin interfaces for many tasks, including category modification.
Compressed on-disk storage.
Strong error handling, exception propagation and inspection.
Administrative tools for deployment support.
SiteOptimizer provides powerful search analytics and reports
AdOptimizer for targeted document clustering.
COM and Java API interfaces.
Articles & Reviews
A closer look at search enginesWashington Technology: July 05 2005 by
Doug Beizer & Describes how the AIDS Research Office, as well as other institutes and offices at NIH, use i411 to manage scientific programs.
Orion Technology Inc.and i411, Inc. Form Strategic PartnershipDirections Magazine, The Worldwide Source for Geospatial Technology: December 16 2005 A press release describing the new partnership between i411, Inc. and Orion Technology Inc., a provider of web-GIS software and integration services.
Examples
Elections Ontario - Resource for information on all aspects of Ontario provincial elections.
De Telefoongids - Information portal for print, DA services and online directories in the Netherlands.
iLocal - Guide to local merchants in the Netherlands.