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Title: IBM Releases Free Search Software

Author: Fontana, John Article Type: Product Comparison
Source: Network World, v23 n49 p16(1) Publication Date: Dec 18, 2006
  ISSN: 0887-7661
URL of Publication: http://www.nwfusion.com

IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition helps small and midsize organizations look for what they need across internal content and documents. The entry level software, which is offered free of charge, is IBMs tool to deflect competitors move to attract departmental and corporate users. Searchers can crawl in index intranet pages and file servers with IBMs release as well as use web search through Yahoo!. Up to 500,000 documents per server and over 200 file type support can be executed using the entry level software that operates on Linux or Windows servers. IBM provides unlimited phone support for customers who would use the new release, which has the capability to read files in over 30 languages. The company faces competition from Google and Microsoft. Google has its Mini entry-search level product, while Microsoft offers the SharePoint Server 2007 to its volume licensing clients. A Forrester Research analyst is predicting that Google and Microsoft will soon offer their own respective free search products in light of IBMs release. Meanwhile, users are trying out OmniFind Yahoo! such as Austin-based Decision Critical, which provides hosted services that aid hospitals in planning and assigning training courses to its personnel. OmniFind Yahoo! offers graphical user interface customization, automatic spell correction, query reporting, synonymous and shortcut support, and wildcard support to replace unknown characters.

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