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
Features
- 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
Page Updated 2005-08-01