Search Tools Service / Toolkit Report

OpenBridge Search & Navigation Engine
(formerly ZNow)

Warning: this product seems to be discontinued

Product Information (acquired by Endymion systems, May 2002)

Platform: Windows 2000, Unix, including Linux
Price: contact company

• Automated classification and taxonomy puts pages into concept topics based on common words among a set of search results.
• Hierarchical clustering lets users chose more and more specific concepts.
• Topical "chunking" of complex documents breaks them down into manageable sections.
• Designed for corporate portals, intranets, topical search engines and vertical portals ("vortals")

Articles & Reports

• Unstructured Information Management Report Infosphere, March, 2003 by Magnus Stensmo and Mikael Thorson, $325/€295 for a single PDF license
  General report on search and categorization tools. Praises the federated search functionality, but finds the offering too limited, search only.

Examples

• ZNOW Oracle 8i Documentation - indexes database manuals.