Search Engines Brick

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Description

A search engine includes a robot or crawler that goes to every page or representative pages on a Website, or the whole Web, and creates an index. It also includes a program that receives search requests, compares an individual request to the entries in the index, and returns results to the end users.

This brick addresses search capabilities for Web pages only. However, several vendors and technologies that can be used enterprise-wide (i.e., search information systems within an organization) will be tracked (in Emerging) moving forward.

Brick Information
Tactical (0-2 years)	Strategic (2-5 years)
Google Search Appliance ( Internet) >= HTDig 3.1.6 (Shareware) Verity Ultraseek 5.04/5.1 (intranet)	Google Search Appliance Verity Ultraseek >= 5.1
Retirement (To be eliminated)	Containment (No new development)
Verity Info Server 3.6/3.61	Conerva Excalibur Convera XX Mindserver (Research Heavy) Phantom Recommind Retrievalware 6.9/8 Swish-E Webcrawler
Baseline (Today)	Emerging (To track)
Copernic Conerva Excalibur Conerva XX Google Search Appliance HTDig 3.1.6 (Shareware) Recommind Mindserver MS Indexing Service MS Search Engine Phantom Retrievalware 6.9/8 Swish-E Verity Info Server 3.6/3.61 Verity Ultraseek 5.04 Webcrawler	Shareware search engines, such as HTDig Multimedia search technology Enterprise search products, such as Convera (A&V) , FAST, Autonomy (A&V), VerityK2, and Endeca Embedded search capabilities, such as those that come with Netscape or ColdFusion Open Source search engines, such as Apache Lucene Additional search engine products, such as new Verity products, ISIS, dtSearch, and Thunderstone

Comments

‘<’ or ‘<=’ indicate versions less than or less than or equal to the one specified; ‘>’ or ‘>=’ indicate versions greater than or greater than or equal to the one specified.
Due to security concerns, separate search engines for intranet and Internet sites were designated in Tactical.
Tactical and Strategic products were selected to leverage NIH's investment in products that are a proven fit for NIH's known future needs. Leveraging baseline products in the future will minimize the operations, maintenance, support and training costs of new products.
Some baseline products have been designated Retirement and Containment. These products are either not as widely or successfully deployed at NIH, or they do not provide as much functionality, value, or Total Cost of Ownership as the selected Tactical and Strategic products.