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Panning for Gold

September 18, 2003
By Sean Doherty

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	Introduction
	CSIRO Panoptic Enterprise Search Engine 4.2.0
	Kanisa Site Search 5.0
	Mondosoft MondoSearch 5.1
	dtSearch Web 6.20
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As more network resources and services are becoming available over the Web, more content is being created and stored in file systems and databases accessible to Web browsers. That means it's getting more difficult for enterprises to find content relevant to a problem or reuse it to generate income. The solution: enterprise search engines.

Enterprise search engines find content within a firewall or secure VPN for employees, customers and partners. These are not Internet search engines tuned for link analysis and popularity contests. These are engines designed to leverage metadata and analyze and index content in a variety of documents. In addition, these engines are designed to traverse secure Web sites, file systems and databases.

We tested enterprise search engines from CSIRO, dtSearch, Kanisa and Mondosoft, scrutinizing each's ability to index and search Web content and manage and report on the search process. CSIRO's Panoptic Enterprise Search Engine took our Editor's Choice award because of its superior performance, ease of use, exceptional management and low price.

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