Our open source search solutions use the Lucene and
Solr open source components with a number of enhancements provided
by System Associates.
We offer our search solution under a site license, which
means your organisation can use our Search solution to spider,
index and search on any number of web pages, files, data sets and
documents. This offers excellent value for money for large
organisations compared to proprietory search solutions.
Our search solution has the following benefits:
- An open architecture capable of considerable extension
- Full control over all aspects of searching
- A proven capacity, with examples of up to 250,000,000 documents
in use
- An advanced feature set
- A global community that are perpetually innovating and
providing improvements in line with the latest thinking
The delivered features include the following:
- Configurable text analysers which are capable of supporting
multiple languages
- Algorithmic and dictionary-based stemming and
lemmatisation
- A complex, fully configurable relevancy engine, including all
standard relevancy parameters: Word and phrase frequency,
proximity, field relevance, word and phrase weighting
- A multi-level faceting engine, providing the ability to refine
searches by categories (in a similar way to the search on Amazon or
eBay for instance)
- Highlighting engine, which highlights search terms within
text
- Full query language, including support for common operators
(AND, OR, NOT etc.)
- Document security
- API, for extending the search
- Dictionaries, fully editable and controllable by
administrators, including did you mean" dictionaries derived from
content
- Helpers, glossaries and auto suggest
- Similar results
- Indexing of any common file type
- Automated indexing
- Crawlers, to spider web content and documents
- Indexing manager, including scheduling
- Field management and taxonomy
- Comprehensive web based interface to allow control of the
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