There is a thread on the Web4lib on Web site search engines. The following
posting on the free availability of Verity's Ultraseek seemed interesting (I
know some UK sites use this) - although there is a sting in the tail.
Any thoughts?
Brian
From:
http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/web4lib/2005-September/038447.html
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We have looked into the Ultraseek product which Verity sells. Several months
ago we wanted to get it but at that time it was cost prohibitive. More
recently Verity's website state it is FREE, for searching and indexing up to
25,000 documents. There is a download option at this location:
http://www.verity.com/products/ultraseek/index.html Read carefully through
the forums and at the implementors' website, paying particular attention to
what customers say about the 25,000 document threshold:
http://www.ultraseek.com/articles/index.html
There are some nice fine-tuning features. It is used by reputable
institutions, such as Johns Hopkins University. One of the aspects we
particularly liked was that it was easy to set up and it can run on Linux,
Solaris, or Windows. If someone has tried this out and finds that FREE is
not accurate, please let me know.
>>> Mark Costa <[log in to unmask]> 9/22/2005 6:50 AM >>>
I am looking for a good web site search engine that I can place on our
library's web site. It needs to be free, easy to implement, and not be
Google.
It's not that I have a beef with Google, its just that they refuse to fix
their statistics reporting program.
TIYA
mc
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Mark R. Costa
Off-Campus Librarian, Eastern Region
Central Michigan University
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On 22 September 2005, Bret Parker wrote:
: There are some nice fine-tuning features. It is used by reputable
: institutions, such as Johns Hopkins University. One of the aspects we
: particularly liked was that it was easy to set up and it can run on
: Linux, Solaris, or Windows. If someone has tried this out and finds that
: FREE is not accurate, please let me know.
It's free, but for a year. After that they don't know how much they'll
charge. It might be free again, or it might be $5,000 USD. That's an
important thing to consider. It has good features, and the cost is
certainly attractive. If one uses the XML output then it wouldn't be hard
to move to another search engine in a year, if need be, and adapt programs
to use its XML output, which will probably be quite similar.
I did a test comparing Ultraseek to the Google Mini, Ultraseek allows much
more hacking and customization. The Mini is great for organizations that
just want to plug something into the wall and have a good basic search.
Bill
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