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Wednesday, 19th November 2003

A New Focused Search Engine Debuts, Targets Public Companies Around the World

Business Research--Specialized Search Tools
New Search Engine Debuts Focusing on Investor-Related Information From Public Companies Around the World
This new engine is called The Scannery and comes from a South African company. The Scannery allows the searcher to limit his or her search to the full text of investor-related web pages from 11,000 public companies. The database is global in scope. Numerous search options are available including the ability to limit by index (SP 500, Global 1000, Euro 400, etc.) country, and/or industry. Boolean connectors along with a proximity operator (w/# of terms) are also available. Wildcards, stemming, natural language, fuzzy match, and synonym searching also add to the database's potential usefulness. The Scannery indexes html, pdf, ppt, doc, and other format types. Complete documentation is available here. According to this article, TimbukOne founder and developer Jos Pols says the difference between The Scannery and other search engines is that where other search engines reference every Web site that has a match, The Scannery focuses solely on investor-specific targets broken down by country and industry sector....The most powerful feature is that the user can consolidate all search results by company Web site, and even find all hits within all documents on any specific Web site, he says. Pols says all public companies have been included. In bigger countries like the US, the top 1, 500 companies have been included, while in a smaller market like Japan, the top 500 companies are searched. Again, this is a new product and I noticed several issues with odd and inconsistent results being returned but this is not uncommon with new and even some old search tools. Bottom Line? With its many features and by focusing on one type of web content, The Scannery has the potential to be a very useful resource. Let's watch it closely.
See Also: "Investor search engine launched" (via ITWeb)

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