Short coverage of how backcountry.com uses both Atomz search and WebSideStory site performance tracking.
Describes how important search can be on commerce sites: DoubleClick reported that 9.3% of all sales in the third quarter of this year came through the search function on shopping sites, compared with 6.6% a year earlier. This requires more sophisticated technologies, for example, Endeca InFront can handle queries such as "Dead Arm Shiraz" on a wine site, and a clothing vendor found that Atomz easy implementation and options for searching in subcategories saw a 13% increase in search use. An online catalog site found a huge number of searches with no matches using analytics software: by addressing this problem, the company increased conversion rates for shoppers using the search engine by 25%.
Implementing Atomz Search allowed Maps.com to recommend the most successful world maps (those with the lowest return rates) in search results.This lead to significant improvements in sales in July over June 2004.
This article describes retailers using Atomz search suggestions to highlight special promotions.
Describes webwide search engine submission issues, and site search tool for news sites. Examples are Atomz at Cincinnati.com, which replaced Netscape and Excite search engines, and was so successful that it is now being used at many of the Gannett newspaper sites. The Deseret News has used Convera RetrievalWare from 1998, apparently on both internal and public sites.
Eminent columnist uses Atomz search service at BrianLivingston.com to make seven years of columns searchable, watch popular topics, and provide a searchable portal to high-quality Windows information sites.
The remote search service was chosen for search administration control, customization, integration and reporting.
Describes features of Atomz service, starting with the search results page and the powerful options for formatting the results in raw HTML. Describes index controls and exclusions, scheduling, file format support for PDF, MPE and Flash files, stopwords, synonyms and other features. Reports are limited to "top requests" with queries and number of results. Rates Atomz an excellent service, greatest limitation is that it only indexes 500 pages for free.
Describes features of Atomz Search with praise for indexing, search forms, relevant results pages, hit highlighting and customization. Would prefer more reporting archives. For free search for sites over 500 pages, recommends FreeFind, praising its indexing scheduling and notification, What's New page, and emailed simple search reports, but faults its many wizard screens and problems with search results.
Among other web applications, describes implementing Atomz Search on the O'Reilly site. Discusses the value of having flexible search for both free and paid content, such as results that display category, book title, cover thumbnail and links. Mentions that the search is used internally as well as for customers, recommends the simplicity of the ASP model, but notes that success depends on consistency of naming and tagging.
In-depth discussion of search engines for e-commerce and other web sites covers features and future trends, software vs. services, database vs. text searching, natural-language searching, and open-source search engines covering ht://Dig and mnoGoSearch (formerly UdmSearch). The testing included indexing over 150,000 pages, and covered administration tools, customization, search features, relevance ranking and search logs. Products were Ultraseek (then Inktomi Search) (which won Editor's Choice), AltaVista Search, and Excalibur RetrievalWare, services were Atomz Enterprise Search and Searchbutton Corporate, which has since addressed some of the shortcomings reported. Also included an email poll of Network Computing readers.
Describes Atomz Enterprise Search, with praise from a customer, and iPhrase natural-language analysis, with description from a Charles Schwab executive and general pricing.
Description of using Atomz Search for a site after outgrowing the search features provided by FrontPage. The reviewer exercised all the features and functions of the service and is a very happy customer.
Thorough discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of using remote search services, how well their indexing robots handle standards and links, search and relevance ranking features, search features, results customization, maintenance and reporting.
Simple description of the Atomz search engine.
