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D0ct0rteeth

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Mar 11, 2002
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Franklin, TN
I am working on a huge company intranet and need to add a search engine for obvious reasons. We are looking at thousands and thousands of pages developed by MCMS (Microsoft Content Management Server) and I was wondering if anyone has any opinions of feedback or overview on the Google, Verity and Convera search products.

I know this is along shot that anyone would be familiar with this stuff and on a Mac forum.. any ideas on where I should post this for more help?

- Doc
 
My last company had just installed the "google search appliance", and it was really good. A little to good in fact. It was crawling secure internal sites and caching them, allowing those not authorised to access the pages to view them in google cache :eek:
 
edesignuk said:
Sorry D0ct0rteeth, I wasn't involved, not even my dept. I just happen to know that this is what happened.

edesignuk,

Does it return good quality results? And does it have Google branding or is it customisable?

Where I work the intranet search feature needs serious beefing up. It either returns very few results or hundreds.
 
It worked very well, a vast improvement over the previous system (can't remember what it was called, but it was a well known one). It was fully customized to work and appear part of the intranet standards (in terms of its design, colours etc). The results were of course still laid out just like google, but over all the page was made to look how they wanted.
 
edesignuk said:
It worked very well, a vast improvement over the previous system...

Sounds good. The best feature of our current 'bespoke' search engine is that it returns no results on searches of more than one word.

Really useful, then!
 
mmmbop said:
Sounds good. The best feature of our current 'bespoke' search engine is that it returns no results on searches of more than one word.

Really useful, then!
hehe, kick arse!

Yeah, it is really good, and now the company who I was talkin' about are about to broker the Google flotation ;)
 
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