Search
On Information Week, January 20, 2003 by Tony Kontzer
Discusses the need for useful search engines in corporate intranets. Describes experiences in Ford's Learning Network using Autonomy; Bank One and Kaiser Permanente using the Google Search Appliance for simplicity, low cost and speed; KMPG UK's use of Verity K2 for sophisticated taxonomy and social networking; Gateway's implementation of iPhrase for support technicians; and EDS using Recommind for role-related search results.
Discusses the need for useful search engines in corporate intranets. Describes experiences in Ford's Learning Network using Autonomy; Bank One and Kaiser Permanente using the Google Search Appliance for simplicity, low cost and speed; KMPG UK's use of Verity K2 for sophisticated taxonomy and social networking; Gateway's implementation of iPhrase for support technicians; and EDS using Recommind for role-related search results.
Quotes from company president describe success with the Siemens worldwide web search, Cisco CD-based documentation and Southwest Bell tariff data handling.
Information on the new K2 Developer version, which includes personalization and categorization capabilities for integration with OEMs. Reports that FileNet plans to replace Hummingbird Fulcrum with Verity K2 in it's CMS, Bell Globemedia Interactive has replaced AltaVista with Verity for text search, supplementing Virage video search.
Praises features of K2Enterprise, especially the "Social Networks" feature which is supposed to identify subject experts by their behavior and link them to internal information and other experts. Also mentions high-profile Verity installations. Reader comments are more skeptical.
Describes the value of search engines and categorization as essential elements of corporate portal infrastructures, to handle the "deluge" of information within enterprises. Quotes Aberdeen analyst Guy Creese who points out that without a good way to search, corporations would be "blowing their investment in the content". Covers recent announcements of search and categorization features by Autonomy, Verity, AltaVista, iPhrase, and Smartlogik (Muscat).
Covers search and categorization technology for corporations from Verity and Smartlogik (Muscat). Includes analyst quotes about the importance of search in handling huge amounts of content. Describes Verity "Social Networks" using business rules to make taxonomies more useful. Smartlogik's Muscatdiscovery search engine stresses natural-language searching, Muscatstructure provides rules-based categorization, both can integrate into application servers using Java or Com+.
Coverage of Verity K2 Catalog, e-commerce portal framework for categorization, display and personalization of product information. Can search by price or part number, suggest complementary products. Allows search admin to control the products for specified strings, based on their search log analysis.
Description of the National Association of Securities Dealers intranet site, which is using the Verity Portal One software to customize the portal, index, search and categorize files.
[Choosing
a Search Engine for INRIA]: Rapport Final (in French) INRIA, July
8, 1999 by Francis Avnaim
Report of a committee charged with choosing a search engine for INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control), covering over 200,000 pages. Mainly compares AltaVista Search with Verity.
Report of a committee charged with choosing a search engine for INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control), covering over 200,000 pages. Mainly compares AltaVista Search with Verity.
Product announcement for Verity Knowledge Organizer, which lets catalogers classify data and add pages to categories automatically.
Describes introduction of KeyView Pro 6.5 and HTML Export 2.0, and covers corporate problems in previous quarters.
Even if you can't spell "potato," new search capabilities in the music database at online retailer CDnow Inc. will make it easier for you to find your music. Using new search technology from Verity Inc., visitors to the CDnow (CDNW) site will be able to locate artists' information even if they can't spell the name correctly. "Can't find Alanis Morisette at other music stores? CDnow is the only online music store that will find you Alanis Morissette," said Chief Executive Jason Olim.
Describes new search toolkit, Verity K2, based on multi-node symmetrical multiprocessor hardware and multithreaded OS architectures. It allows topic searches across multiple data sources and results in less than two seconds even for hundreds of thousands of documents.
Verity had accused Lotus of breaking a license agreement and incorporating advanced search features in Lotus Notes 5.0. In the settlement, Lotus will license the KeyView filtering technology.
Describes the Verity K2 toolkit for knowledge management.
Comprehensive comparative review of AltaVista eXtension 97, Integrated I-Search 3.0, Microsoft Index Server 2.0, Innotech Net Results 1.2, Verity Search 97 Information Server and Netscape Compass 3.0 (recommended).