New Article - Interview: Thunderstone VP Doran Howitt

[thejenn]

Full Text: http://www.searchengineguide.com/dow.../0204_jd1.html

Some Snippets:

"Do you allow your customers to expose the search results of your search appliance to the internet or is it strictly for use on internal corporate intranets?"

"Yes, either. In addition, we allow its use for *indexing* other web sites out on the internet. You can serve those search results either to the public or just for your internal use."

"Users can set the rank knobs selectively for each search. They also can turn on or off the thesaurus, pattern matching, proximity, and stemming. That's if the administrator has turned those things on -- those are settings! And of course there is the + and - logic operators, phrases, and wild cards. For the geeks, you can search with a regular expression."

[Robert]

I was so excited reading about Google's search appliance for small businesses only to be disappointed that it doesn't allow you to crawl other sites.

Thunderstone was smart to allow the option to crawl other sites as it adds so much value to their offering.

I know what I want for Christmas!