Free business and web search tool is ready to rock and roll

IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition is a no-cost, entry level search product developed to help eliminate financial and technology barriers to company intranet and web searching. You can download it free of charge; it’s simple to install and use; and it works with existing hardware. It can support some 500,000 documents per server, more than 200 file types and documents in more than 30 languages. It also uses the open source Lucene indexing library to provide cross-platform full text indexing. Advanced features include automatic spell correction, support for synonyms and shortcuts, wildcard support to substitute for unknown characters, query reporting and graphical user interface customisation. Beyond all that, it’s integrated with Yahoo! Search, providing one click access to send queries to Yahoo! web, image, video, audio, directory, local and news search services. “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,” says Eckart Walther, vice president of product management for Yahoo! Search. “This is a valuable tool for helping organisations 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,” he adds. “Organisations 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,” says 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 analyse it to resolve customer issues, spot trends, recognise business opportunities and become more flexible.”