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| March 05, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 Incisive Media, published with the permission of Incisive Media. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Davey Winder

IBM and Yahoo serve up a free lunch

Davey Winder tucks into this no-cost enterprise-level search dish and sends the chefs his compliments

' search engine

IBM has already got an enterprise-class search product in OmniFind, so why is it partnering with Yahoo to provide a free version of the same? The answer is simple: IBM wants to attack Google's Mini search hardware in the small business marketplace.

But don't think of IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition as just a toy version of the real product, or a loss-leader to grab attention and direct users to an expensive upgrade path. IBM OmniFind Yahoo is a serious tool. It might be free, but it's one lunch that looks likely to satisfy, courtesy of the capacity to index half a million documents and an ability to combine results with Yahoo-powered web searches.

The "three-click installation" promise is no hype. It really is a doddle to install -- just don't expect it to be a quick doddle. Although installation itself took 15 minutes via the Java GUI, the entire afternoon was spent in building a 3.5GB index of the 50,000 documents found on the local drives and network drives mounted on IWR's test search server.

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