TOP SECRET Project XSearch – Clustering

November 18th, 2008 by Charles S. Knight
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Unlock the Power of Information. Search is changing. Navigation is changing.  Leave the old ways.

Weitkamper Technology delivers solutions for Intelligent Search, Navigation and Classification. XSEARCH Software helps you to unlock the power of your data. It helps your users find exactly the information they need. In a new, intuitive way.

We provide a complete Knowledge Retrieval Solution as well as search enhancements for using »on top« of your search engine or database system – without any need of changing their architecture. For easy integration within a few days.

Our core products are:
* XSEARCH Knowledge Retrieval
* XSEARCH Linguistic Engine
* XSEARCH Clustering Engine
* XSEARCH DidYouMean
* XSEARCH Suggest
* XSEARCH Federated Search
* XSEARCH Summarizer
* XSEARCH Facet Navigator.

Established in 1994, Weitkämper Technology has been focused on how to make search work better for more than a decade. Our partnership with technology leaders helps us to realize the full potential of search. Source: Weitkämper Technology

How to Contact AltSearchEngines – for any reason!

November 18th, 2008 by Charles S. Knight
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Charles@AltSearchEngines.com is our only email.




Splunk – The IT Search Engine

November 18th, 2008 by Charles S. Knight
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See all the amazing things Splunk can do

Index

With a variety of flexible input methods you can index logs, configurations, traps and alerts, messages, scripts, and code and performance data from all your applications, servers and network devices. Monitor file systems for scripts and configuration changes, capture archive files, find and tail live application logs, connect to network ports to receive syslog, SNMP and other network-based instrumentation. And this is just where it starts.

Search

Fast, free form search on anything, not just a few predetermined fields. Boolean, nested, quoted string and wildcard searches. No knowledge of specific data formats required. Combine time and term searches. Find errors across every tier of your infrastructure and configuration changes in the seconds before a system failure occurred. Fields are identified from your results as you search — providing much more flexibility than a rigid set of field mapping rules imposed ahead of time.
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Alert: Any search can be run on a schedule and trigger notifications or actions based on the search results. And because it works across different components and technologies, Splunk is the most flexible monitoring tool in your arsenal. Notifications can be sent via email, RSS or SNMP to other management consoles. Actions trigger scripts performing user described activities like restarting an application, server or network device.

Report: Splunk marries powerful reporting capabilities with the speed, flexibility and scale of IT Search. Search results can be easily summarized as reports with interactive charts, graphs and tables. The simplicity of analyzing massive amounts of data will amaze you (and your boss). And remember, because fields are identified as you search you can specify new fields without re-indexing your data.

Share: Everyone knows IT data is generally poorly documented by vendors, developers and operations staff. With Splunk everyone can add their own knowledge as they go. As you’re saving searches, identifying different types of fields, events and transactions you make the whole system smarter for everyone else. And that knowledge doesn’t walk out the door when someone leaves.

Scale: Scale your installation from a single application and just a few data sources to your whole datacenter and thousands of sources. You’ll find a wide range of options to access data, store it, search it and route it to other systems.

Secure: Of course you’ll need to keep your IT data secure. Especially as you realize what a valuable information asset you have. Splunk gives you secure data handling, fine grain access controls, auditability, assurance of data integrity and integration with existing authentication systems.

Hotel Search Engine VibeAgent Raises $3 Million

November 18th, 2008 by Charles S. Knight
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VibeAgent, the hotel search engine, announced today at the industry-leading PhoCusWright Travel Conference that it has raised $3 million in Series A investment capital to support its goal of becoming the world’s leading hotel search engine.

“It can be very time-consuming to find the right hotel at the best price online,” said VibeAgent Co-founder and CEO Adam Healey. “VibeAgent solves this problem by aggregating rates, availability, and content from over 30 travel sites, and adding a layer of intelligence to match each traveler to the perfect hotel. Our goal is to become the market leader in hotel search, and this investment is a milestone along that path.”

VibeAgent helps travelers find the perfect hotel at the best available price. The site searches over 30 leading travel and hotel sites to consolidate rates, availability, and hotel content on over 140,000 hotels, providing its users access to the largest hotel selection and best room rates available online. Travelers can use VibeAgent’s real-time price, location, and category filters to determine which hotel best suits their needs, and then see consolidated room rates from all the searched sites. This saves travelers from having to visit multiple sites to find the right hotel at the best available rate.

VibeAgent allows registered users to post and share hotel reviews with their own network of friends and colleagues. The company has also just launched the Hotelier Suite, which allows hotels to post or claim their hotel and manage their content directly on VibeAgent’s search engine.

VibeAgent searches rates and availability for more than 140,000 hotels worldwide from 30 leading hotel and travel sites. VibeAgent is based in Charlottesville, Virginia, as is AltSearchEngines!

Kedrix, the Mearch engine

November 18th, 2008 by Charles S. Knight
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What’s a mearch engine? Mearch is a term coined from combing the words Meta and Search! Meta search engines take relevant results from dozens of general search engines and rank pages by their standing among the source search engines. Every time you type in a query at a meta-search engine, it search a series of other search sites at the same time, compiles their results, and displays them either by search engine employing or by integrating them in a uniform manner, eliminating duplicates, and resorting them according to relevance. It’s like using multiple search engines, all at the same time, but quicker!

There are search engines in which to provide you with information concerning pricing for things you may consider purchasing. These sites find the items that you are searching for and compare the prices using information from a wealth of sources. They could be very helpful for the holiday season.

Metasearch engines should be called a Searcher’s Search Engine because they target helping the searcher. There is another kind of search engine called the Marketer’s Search Engine which I shall discuss in a separate article. These kind of search engines, while still helpful to searchers, are more helpful to marketers.Remember, the goal is to find answers for questions. Having the ability to see all the relevant data, instead of one slice of the data, will help users find the answer(s) much more quickly.

There is one metasearch engine that I would recommend: Kedrix. It is probably the most well known of the metasearch engines and is helpful in seeing aggregated and comparison results. Some reasons to use Kedrix metasearch are to find answers to questions from a broader base of results, find better results, make searching easier, understand the big three search engines, compare the big three search engines, and use big three analysis to improve SEO.

Source: David Pleak of Kedrix