Search Tools Product Report

orenge (empolis)

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Name comes from "open retrieval engine"

Platform: middleware on Windows NT, 2000; Unix Linux, Solaris, HP/UX
Price: contact company

• Designed for Knowledge Management, e-commerce and complex customer support applications.
• Uses Natural-Language Processing when possible to identify questions and structure queries
• Can integrate with databases, file systems, Lotus Notes, OpenText LiveLink, Tamino.
• Spider can index text by following links.
• Mainly Java and XML, with some features available in C++, C DLL and Java JNI DLL.
• Includes a spellchecker, recommender and profiler, Topic Map engine also available.
• Search interface includes an interactive dialog with the end user.

Articles & Reviews

• E-commerce search engines get smarter eWEEK; October 27 2000 by Grant DuBois
  Short description of two search engines (Mercado IntuiFind and empolis orenge) which work with e-commerce catalogs to provide better results for searches.

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