IBM OmniFind from Yahoo "indexes up to 500,000 documents and over 200 file types in 30 different languages". It's a software available for Linux and Windows, that can be downloaded for free. System requirements are pretty rough: 2 processors at 3 GHz, 2 GB of RAM, 250 GB free space.
On the other hand, Google Search Appliance is an integrated hardware/software solution that uses Red Hat Linux, 2 dual-core Intel Xeon processors and 16GB of RAM (GB-1001).
Unlike Omnifind, Google's solution looks at the connection between documents and tries to do for intranet what Google does for Internet: ranking search results by
Yahoo's entry in enterprise search market shows that Yahoo continues to outsource search, but it choose excellent products for that.
Unlike Omnifind, Google's solution looks at the connection between documents and tries to do for intranet what Google does for Internet: ranking search results by relevancy.
ReplyDeleteThat has got to be the most inane thing I have heard in a long time. "Unlike Omnifind," you write, "Google rank[s] search results by relevancy". You are kidding me, right? ALL search engines rank results by relevancy! Not just Google. Google may (or may not) do a better job of that ranking. But everyone ranks by relevancy. Do you really not understand this?