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Search Tools Product Reports

LivePublish NextPage NXT 3 Search Engine

(Formerly Folio siteDirector)

Product Information (no site-search-specific page available)
  Distributed Search Product Information

Price: contact company
Platforms: Windows NT / 2000

Features

• Integrated closely with NextPage content management system
• Scalable to millions of documents
• Recognizes XML tagging for field data
• Search results hit highlighting
• Access control according to user permissions, domains, document collections, etc.
• Natural-language and content-based searching
• Keywords, Boolean operators, phrases, wildcards, stemming, synonyms, fields, proximity, nesting, etc.
• Compatible with many file formats, including PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Articles & Reviews

• Online document manager (NextPage 2.0) IT Week, March 2000 by Mat Hanrahan and Herb Bethony
  Describes improvements over previous versions, especially the XML orientation, native file format support, and searching.

Reviews of Earlier Version - Folio SiteDirector

• Folio to adopt XML, open up Views format Seybold Report on Internet Publishing, Feb. 20, 1998 by Mark Walter with Matt Hengey
  Covers plans to move from a proprietary format to XML as an open standard. Customers interviewed for the article were also pleased.
• Open Market announces siteDirector 4.1 InfoWorld, December 15, 1998 by Jeff Walsh
  Includes announcement information, analysis from the Aberdeen Group.
  
  
• Folio Adds to SiteDirector: Upgrade customizes search results InformationWeek, December 7, 1997 by Justin Hibbard
  Includes information on how newspapers are using infoBase and siteDirector.
  
  
• Internal Search Engines Get You Where You Want To Go TechWeb October 15, 1997 by Barry Nance
  Good, thorough coverage of AltaVista eXtension 97, Folio siteDirector 3.1, Ultraseek 1.1, Inmagic/Lycos, DB/Text Intranet Spider, ISYS:Web 2.0, Maxum Phantom 2.0; Microsoft Index Server 3.0, Netscape Compass 3.0, Quadralay WebWorks Search 2.0, Verity IntelliServe 1.0, freeWAIS 0.3, WebGlimpse 4.0B1 and SWISH 1.1.
  
  
• LLRX - Is an Intranet in Your Future? Law Library Resource Exchange, May 22, 1997 by Sabriana I Pacifici
  Describes the steps to creating a law library intranet, including information about Folio Views and siteDirector.
  
  
• Folio solution serves infobases InfoWorld Intranet World, May 12, 1997 by Gess Shankar
  Short review concentrating on siteDirector, describes the process of installing and using the product. Rating: "very good".
  
  
• Review of siteDirector 3.1 (reading requires registration) Network World, April 21, 1997 by Mark Gibbs
  Provides background and context for product, describes difficulties in installing and configuring the system. Final judgment is that it's powerful, flexible and fast, but needed work on web server integration.
  
  
• Folio Builder is volumes better PC Week Online, March 31, 1997 by Herb Bethoney
  Covers both infoBase and siteDirector, recommends the product for organizations that need to publish a very large number of documents.