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IBM, Yahoo Offer Business Search SoftwarePOSTED December 13, 2006 ARMONK, NY and SUNNYVALE, CA -- IBM and Yahoo have
teamed up to offer free enterprise search software with Web search
services powered by Yahoo that enables departments and businesses
of all sizes to quickly and easily find, access and capitalize
on information stored within organizations and across the Web. "Together, IBM and Yahoo! are delivering on the promise of making information easier to find, use and share while providing a better search experience for users," said Eckart Walther, vice president of product management for Yahoo! Search. "This is a valuable tool for helping organizations improve employee productivity by enabling them to more quickly find needed information. By empowering customers and partners to quickly find information on the Web, we're also able to reduce their support costs." This announcement supports IBM's company-wide Information on Demand strategy aimed at helping clients of all sizes unblock the barriers to using information as a strategic asset. By enabling organizations to more easily take advantage of enterprise and Web search, IBM and Yahoo are helping organizations improve access to information, gain new business insight, and create new opportunities for the use of information no matter where it is found. "Organizations of all sizes are faced with the problem of too much information residing in different locations and in different formats, making it nearly impossible to quickly extract meaning," said Ambuj Goyal, general manager, IBM Information Management, IBM Software Group. "IBM and Yahoo are bringing clients closer to the reality of being able to use all of their information and analyze it to resolve customer issues, spot trends, recognize business opportunities and become more flexible." With support for up to 500,000 documents per server, more than 200 file types and documents in more than 30 languages, IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition offers a unique combination of simplicity, openness, and functionality. It features a three-click installation process and takes customers only minutes to go from download to live search and information access. IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition also uses the open source Lucene indexing library to provide cross-platform full text indexing. IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition offers advanced features such as automatic spell correction, support for synonyms and shortcuts, wildcard support to substitute for unknown characters, query reporting, and graphical user interface customization. In addition, it is fully integrated with Yahoo Search, providing one-click access to send queries to Yahoo web, image, video, audio, directory, local and news search services. IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition is available at no charge and can be downloaded at http://omnifind.ibm.yahoo.com. © Copyright SVDaily.com |
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