Vivisimo Search, Clustering and MetaSearch Engines

Product Information

Platform: Windows, Linux, Solaris, other Unixes
Price: Velocity pricing starts at $10,000 per year and scales with the number of documents to be crawled or meta-searched. Clustering and Meta Search engines are available for an additional price.

Features

• Velocity - search engine
• Crawls files on file servers, intranets, web servers , Lotus Notes
• Gathers content from relational databases using XM L
• Supports HTML, text, RTF, Adobe Acrobat PDF, PostScript, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, ZIP, GZIP and TAR
• Stores item-level access control
• Supports English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, and others .
• Indexes metadata when available
• Not just search suggestions, but also promoting defined matches to top of results page
• Automated summarization for results
• Multi-level access control
• Advanced search with Boolean and field operators
• Browser-based administration interface
• Reports on indexing, converting and system operations
• Customizable interface
• Designed to integrate with clustering and metasearch engines
• Vivisimo Content Integrator
• Federated / Meta Search engine
• Sends requests to multiple search engines via HTTP and integrates results
• Accepts search engine output in text, HTML or XML
• Sends results to Clustering Engine
• Written in C, with interfaces for Perl, ASP, JSP, C, C++
• Comes with interfaces to Google, Autonomy, FAST, Ultraseek, Verity K2
• Vivisimo Clustering Engine
• Performs automatic topical clustering of search results
• Accepts search engine output in text, HTML or XML
• Written in C, with interfaces for Perl, ASP, JSP, C, C++
• Comes with interfaces to Google, Autonomy, FAST, Ultraseek, Verity K2.

Articles & Reviews

• Search Moves Well Beyond Google Information Week, June 12, 2006 by Thomas Claburn
  Describes how FirstGov has switched to a combination of MSN Search and Vivisimo Search and Clustering, which now brings back results from local jurisdictions as well as the federal government. The administrator in charge likes the clustered category links. Mentions Google Search Appliance market share, and Autonomy's powerful but complex features. One search administrator recommends the need to invest resources to make best use of search systems.
  
  
• A sharp eye for details: Enterprise search systems must scour more than ever before Government Computer News, May 22, 2006 by S. Michael Gallagher
  Describes some of the specific demands of government business processes, and how some features such as video search are being incorporated into enterprise search by companies like FAST. Divides search into four categories: departmental; general-purpose enterprise search; customizable specialized search; and document management systems with search. Describes federated search from OpenText and Documentum, Vivisimo as well as Google's Search Appliance OneBox technology. In contrast, EasyAsk emphasizes multiple query and navigation depending on the data. The article also describes the value of entity extraction and taxonomy to improve search results.
  

Examples

• RAND Corporation - research think-tank
• AAAS.org - American Association for the Advancement of Sciences
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