IBM Announces Enhancements to Free Enterprise Search Software

IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled a new release of the free IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition enterprise search software with Web search services powered by Yahoo! that enables users to further customize and personalize their searches to find, access and capitalize on information stored inside organizations and across the Web. The new version of IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition offers the ability to separate content into different searchable document collections, an improved administration console that simplifies set-up and management of the search tool, and enhanced search support based on the latest open source Lucene indexing library. Other enhancements improve the performance, indexing and custom search field capabilities, as well as support for additional browsers. The new version of IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition provides the ability to create a number of collections, each indexing a different set of documents. This allows the user to limit the search to only the documents from a specific source, providing more accurate results. It also provides the ability to define additional custom fields in the index allowing field values to be mapped from HTML meta tags, extracted from the document's own metadata, or pushed in from the push API. For example, OminFind Yahoo! Edition can now allow the user to search within content intended for a specific country by specifying a custom country metadata field as part of the search request. IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition is available at no charge and can be downloaded at http://omnifind.ibm.yahoo.com, http://www.ibm.com/software/data/enterprise-search/