Tuesday, 12th December 2006

Yahoo & IBM Release Free Enterprise Search Product

Yahoo & IBM Release Free Enterprise Search Product
Another day and another product, this time a freebie. We haven't had a chance to give it a whirl but this news might be of interest to some of you who use enterprise search tools. Hopefully, enterprise search guru Avi Rappaport will have a full review soon on SearchTools.com in the near future.

Fast Facts and News Release via IBM:
+ Product Name: OmniFind Yahoo! Edition
+ Indexes up to 500,000 documents and over 200 file types in 30 different languages.
+ Customizable Search Interface
+ Ability to Create and Tweak Synonyms
+ Create Search Shortcuts
+ More info and download
+ Learn More (Tech Specs) and Download

Source: Yahoo Search Blog

Btw, this is NOT the first time Yahoo has tried its hand in the enterprise search space.

Two years ago (almost to the day), Yahoo and Verity (now part of Autonomy) teamed up and released Verity Enterprise Web Search that combined internal document search with Yahoo search results. In this case, the revenue stream came from sponsored listings appearing on results pages. Here's the official news release from December 16, 2004.

Earlier this year, X1 the provider of the technology that powers Yahoo Desktop Search, released a bundled Yahoo Toolbar with the enterprise version of X1. Here's the news release.

See Also: Commentary from Forrester Research on Today's Announcement IBM/Yahoo Announcement (via News.com)

See Also: IBM and Yahoo try to challenge Google with free data-search tool (via AP)

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