Search Tools Product Report

Matchpoint (Triplehop/Oracle)

Product Information

Price: Starts at $150 per user, with decreasing per-user costs for larger installations.
Platform: Sun OS, Unix, AIX, RedHat Linux, Windows 2000; also offered as a remote seach service.

In June 2005, Triplehop Technologies, Inc. was acquired by Oracle. Support continues for TripleHop MatchPoint customers; a migration path may be in store as Oracle integrates Triplehop's technology into its own enterprise search efforts.

Features

• Designed for enterprise intranets, complex research problems.
  
• Robot crawler follows links to discover pages.
  
• Able to gather fileshare and personal workstation files.
  
• Offers options to discard forms and other unimportant file types.
  
• Detects duplicate documents and records.
  
• Near-realtime incremental indexing.
  
• Indexes over 200 document formats including MS Office, PDF, and TXT files.
  
• Indexes text from multimedia video and audio files with add-on.
  
• Distributed architecture for scalability to terabytes.
  
• Supports exact phrase searching, wild cards, proximity, parentheses, Boolean search, stemming, and fuzzy searches.
  
• Supports metadata and parametric searching (including on Lotus Notes.)
  
• Search-By-Concept feature finds synonyms and related terms.
  
• Admin tool provides interface for customizing results pages.
  
• Results can be clustered by topic, concept, date, format, source, and language.
  
• Faceted metadata results interface.
  
• Context summaries and search term, phrase, and/or concept highlighting.
  
• Spellchecker, search within results, and "more like this" functionality.

Articles & Reviews

• Oracle Acquires Software Assets of TripleHop DelphiWeb.com: June 28, 2005
  
  Oracle has acquired software assets and the development team of TripleHop, and will integrate the firmâs MatchPoint technologies with Oracle search offerings over an unannounced development roadmap.



• Oracle Buys Context Media, TripleHop; Leapfrogs Into Next Generation Content Management and Search IDC: by Susan Feldman
  
  Speculation about how Triplehop Matchpoint technology will be integrated into Oracle's new 'content services' offering.

Examples

• Find.com Beta - Beta search engine for business users.
• Ski Europe - Ski and travel site which uses Matchpoint technology for its SkiMatcher feature.
• TripMatcher Demo - Triplehop's demonstration of their travel-specific matching technology.
• ShopMatcher Demo - Triplehop's demonstration of their retail-specific matching technology.