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Friday, December 15, 2006

Free Enterprise Search Software

You don't hear the word "free" much in the enterprise space. It's all license per seat, support contracts, etc.

However, IBM (remember them?) and Yahoo have teamed up to provide free enterprise search software. You can download your own copy here.

IBM have, of course, been a major player in the enterprise space for a very long time. This hook up with Yahoo makes a great deal of sense, for both companies.

Other search companies are going to need to leverage this type of partnership more if they want to translate from web to the enterprise.

With support for up to 500,000 documents per server, more than 200 file types and documents in more than 30 languages.....features a three-click installation process and takes customers only minutes to go from download to live search and information access. IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition also uses the open source Lucene indexing library to provide cross-platform full text indexing....IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition offers advanced features such as automatic spell correction, support for synonyms and shortcuts, wildcard support to substitute for unknown characters, query reporting, and graphical user interface customization. In addition, it is fully integrated with Yahoo! Search, providing one-click access to send queries to Yahoo! web, image, video, audio, directory, local and news search services.