Re: SOT: Internal/Intranet Search Engines - What to ask the sales critters

2003-11-16 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Jeremy Brodie wrote: Larry, Some of the critical questions to help you in your search. 1) Do you need to search locally from a CD/DVD or from a server? 2) In what file format is the manual (PDF, word docs, etc) 3) What will you use as your user interface for searching the manual (flash,

SOT: Internal/Intranet Search Engines - What to ask the sales critters

2003-11-13 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Greetings, The company a friend of mine works for is starting to look at search engines like Verity, Google, Altavista or DTSearch for searching as he puts it: they want to be able to search the IETM database (on their own server for their DWAN, which they call a web server because it uses

Re: SOT: Internal/Intranet Search Engines - What to ask the sales critters

2003-11-13 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Jeremy Brodie wrote: Larry, This all depends on what you're trying to do and your budget. Here's some information 1) Google is a 2u search appliance that you would fit on a rack. The appliance runs into the thousands of dollars-- but then you're using Google. Google is a document