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A sales rep from Inktomi is coming to see me on Friday. I know that the Inktomi (nee Ultraseek) search engine is used by a small but growing number of Universities and that those that do use it seem to like it. I'd be interested to hear from those who do use it - how good is it; is it worth paying for an (expensive?) licensed product when there are open source tools such as ht://Dig; are you using any of the advanced facilities (e.g. indexing structured metadata, using the APIs, ...); have you had any problems with it; etc. A summary of the meeting is given below. Rather sales-oriented, but the statistic that Inktomi is used by 9 out of the top 10 US Universities is interesting. Ta Brian > Here are my aims for the meeting: > > 1) Make you and your colleagues aware of Inktomi's current search > offerings > 2) Position Inktomi in the search market > 3) Talk about the future on Inktomi/search on a network/internet. > > Here is a rough outline about Inktomi and its search technology: > > Inktomi are market leaders in Internet/Intranet search. Companies like > Nokia, Ericsson, Sun, HP, Schlumberger, and Reuters have recently > standardized on Inktomi Search Software as their underlying knowledge > retrieval platform. Add this to the fact that 9 out of the top 10 U.S. > Universities also use Inktomi as their preferred search engine and I'm > sure you will agree that Inktomi is the best search engine for > Education Networks. In addition to providing the > highest-quality search results, these customers tell us that > Inktomi Search Software is the only product that can scale > to the demands of their global enterprises, is extensible > with the ability to effectively retrieve and blend both > unstructured and structured (databases, content management systems, > etc.) data, and is the easiest application to deploy and maintain. > > What makes us stand out among search engines? > > . Natural language search > . Completely customisable > . Scalable to millions of documents > . Optimised relevance ranking > . Easy to install and administer (browser-based) > > Here a re a few links that relate to Inkotmi: > > Search Products > http://www.inktomi.com/products/search/ > > Inktomi Enterprise Search named "Network Computing - Well Connected > Award": http://www.networkcomputing.com/1210/1210f116.html#searcheng > > Sample of Inktomi Enterprise Search - Customers > http://www.inktomi.com/products/search/customers/sites.html > > Evaluation Copy Download > http://www.inktomi.com/products/search/download/download.htm > > Our Support offerings: > http://support.inktomi.com/Offerings/offerings-search.html > > IES Overview: > http://www.inktomi.com/products/search/ > > IES Modules: > http://www.inktomi.com/products/search/products/modules/index.html > > Product datasheets: http://www.inktomi.com/showme/collateral.html > > Java API: > http://www.inktomi.com/products/search/products/xpa/index.html > > Release Notes of latest version: > http://support.inktomi.com/products/search/support/docs/relnotes/relnote s-4- --------------------------------------- Brian Kelly UK Web Focus UKOLN University of Bath BATH BA2 7AY Email: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ Phone: 01225 38 3943