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Search Tools Product Reports

InMagic DB/Text Spider

Product Description

Note: earlier products were created in partnership with Lycos, current products are independent.

Price: $7500
Platform: Windows NT 4

Features

• Crawls intranet and related servers at scheduled times.
• Easy to install and maintain.
• Indexes HTML, text and office productivity files such as Microsoft Word, Excel and Adobe Acrobat PDF.
• Recognizes metadata, Dublin Core fields, even in repeated tags.
• Java interface has Word Wheel index browser.
• Customized search results views.

Articles & Reviews

• Inmagic Gatherer and Classifier Released June 10, 2002
  InMagic announces a partnership with TopicalNet to integrate classification with the content management and search engine.
• 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.
  
  
• DB/Text Intranet Spider pulls your intranet together InfoWorld, August 18, 1997, Steven W. Litras
  Review covers the features and benefits of the program and recommends it.

Examples

• Lindesmith Center Library

2002-12-18