Search Tools Product Report

Noviforum Search

Formerly Trident Search

Product Information

Platform: Java / JSP
Price: $2,650 up to 10,000 documents, contact company

• Indexing crawler (robot spider) looks for "quality" pages
• Index stored in Unicode, avoiding encoding problems
• Phrase and proximity searching and ranking results.
• Numeric, date range and wildcard searching
• PrecisionRank algorithm for sorting search results
• Language recognition for 36 languages and stemming in 25 languages
• Shows document preview with highlighted search terms
• Scalable to large data sets with fast retrieval
• Java API

Articles & Reviews

• Slovenian company unveils Java-based search engine Infoworld Electric, April 28, 1999 by Jeanette Borzo
  Describes the search engine and a demonstration given at the Java conference.
  
  
• WWW search engine for Slovenian and English medical documents
  Describes a project for searching a digital library and developing user profiles to aid searching. Describes use of stopwords and stemming in Slovenian, probabilistic relevance ranking with interactive rlevance feedback. Tested medical queries on the local search engine and webwide search engines such as AltaVista.

Examples

• Najdi.si portal