Yahoo and IBM have released a free enterprise search engine for small and medium businesses that will index a up to 500,000 documents on Windows and Linux intranet servers. Omnifind is built upon Apache Lucene search technology, providing fast, full-text indexing and search capabilities of various document types, such as MS Word or PDF, as well as web pages.
IBM and Yahoo! state:
IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition is a no-charge, entry-level enterprise search software solution that enables rapid deployment of intranet and file system search for both employees and customers.
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The value add for SMBs is that IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition is not only free and built upon proven open source technology, but that it’s backed by IBM and Yahoo, as well as a community of volunteers that can help you tailor your solution to your enterprise search needs. Look for Springboard to be deeply involved with this technology, as well as sample OmniFind scripts to be posted here.