Simon,
Further to my previous reply, we have some search technology in our code
'library' that might be of interest.
Basically this is a spidering and statistical analysis package. The
'approach' of this solution is to target specific market/industry/research
sectors rather then spider the whole internet (e.g. Google searches 3
billion pages!). A standard search engine will spider a site and record the
information that exists within meta tags and the top few pages; this is then
included within a database that is interrogated during the query.
Our tool will spider a pre-defined list of core sites (e.g. 500) that are
most relevant. It will then take keywords from a user-defined thesaurus,
crawl the entire site and take full text copies of the information. The
core list will grow dynamically and organically by automatically adding the
link to other sites which are found during the spidering. Trend analysis
reports are available, with the ability to 'data mine' what the spider finds
and catalogues.
This tool - "FYI" - was developed for specific projects within the video
games and pharmaceuticals industries. However, we would enjoy the
opportunity to explore its applicability more generally.
Kind Regards,
Reynold.
> Hi
I am looking at different search engines for our website. Can anyone
recommend a good product? We need a search engine that is
extremely configurable and that can search many different resource
types (both on our own servers and potentially on external servers).
Any comments on this broad subject are welcomed.
Many thanks
Simon <
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