Inktomi Announces Enhancements to Enterprise Search Software; Inktomi Enterprise Search 4.3 and Inktomi Search Architect Edition Deliver More Precise, Comprehensive Search Results to Enterprise Users.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 19, 2001 Inktomi Corp. (Nasdaq:INKT INKT Inktomi, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) INKT I Never Knew That ), developer of scalable network infrastructure, today announced enhancements to Inktomi(R) Enterprise Search software as well as an end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. for optimizing and searching corporate content, providing enterprises with effective search across their intranets, extranets and Web sites. Inktomi Enterprise Search 4.3 includes an interface for indexing metadata (1) (meta-data) Data that describes other data. The term may refer to detailed compilations such as data dictionaries and repositories that provide a substantial amount of information about each data element. created in content management and classification applications, the ability to insert direct links to popular documents in search results and expanded support for database content. Additionally, the company introduced Inktomi Search Architect Edition, a complete solution that combines the latest version of Inktomi Enterprise Search with content optimization optimization Field of applied mathematics whose principles and methods are used to solve quantitative problems in disciplines including physics, biology, engineering, and economics. tools to automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. the process of developing easy-to-search content for highly accurate search results. "The latest version of Inktomi Enterprise Search reinforces our commitment to delivering highly relevant, comprehensive search results to enterprise users," said San Mai, vice president of product management at Inktomi. "Extending our enterprise search solution to include a complete package for content optimization and retrieval, Inktomi Search Architect Edition provides enterprises with an efficient, cost-effective way to ensure their content is best represented to the search engine for enhanced results." Inktomi Enterprise Search 4.3 Inktomi Enterprise Search 4.3 leverages the software's ease of deployment and management to provide enterprises with additional tools for creating a comprehensive search index and delivering highly relevant search results. New feature highlights: -- Content Assistant -- An interface that enables software developers to index and associate metadata created and stored in proprietary content repositories, such as content management systems and content classification applications, with the corresponding source document. This feature allows administrators to inject additional metadata directly into a document at any time during the indexing process, resulting in more precise search results. -- Quick Links -- Links to popular documents can now be inserted into search results based on keywords, allowing administrators to direct users to specific documents and enabling users to more quickly narrow down their searches. Quick Links appear as a separate group of results as they are not part of the relevance-calculated search results. -- Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) Support -- Extending the capabilities of its database module, Inktomi can now index BLOBs stored in databases for all supported file formats. This capability allows the search engine to easily index non-text items such as images, charts and spreadsheets for a more comprehensive search. Inktomi Search Architect Edition Building upon Inktomi's alliance with Watchfire Corporation, Inktomi Search Architect Edition combines Watchfire Enterprise Solution(TM) with Inktomi Enterprise Search 4.3 in one easy-to-deploy and manage solution for automating the practice of preparing content for search engine indexing. Inktomi Search Architect Edition automatically scans and analyzes enterprise content for problems that can impact its ability to be searched and quickly and accurately adds important keyword metadata (such as page titles, alt tags, author tags and description tags) to improve the accessibility and ranking of that content. Availability Inktomi Enterprise Search 4.3 and Inktomi Search Architect Edition are available immediately. For more about these products, please go to: www.inktomi.com/products/search. Inktomi Enterprise Search has been deployed by more than 2,500 enterprises, public Web sites, universities and government entities to provide timely information access to their users. The highly scalable search software has a low total cost of ownership due to its rapid installation, efficient management and administration and highly relevant information retrieval information retrieval Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. capabilities. Inktomi's natural language search is compatible with hundreds of file formats, multiple languages and both structured and unstructured repositories While acknowledging services such as [ROAR: [1]] and [OpenDOAR: [2]] it is perhaps necessary to provide a list of individual repositories described in more detail within wikipedia here. such as databases, portals, content management systems, collaboration applications, security systems, file systems and Web servers. About Inktomi Based in Foster City, Calif., Inktomi develops and markets network infrastructure software essential for global enterprises and service providers. Inktomi's business is divided into Network Products, comprised of industry leading solutions for network caching, content distribution, media broadcasting, and wireless technologies; and Search Solutions, which include general Web search and related services, and enterprise search. Inktomi's customer and strategic partner base includes leading companies such as America Online See AOL. , AT&T, Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard Company, Intel, Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER TYO: 8675 ), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides capital markets services, investment banking and advisory services, wealth management, asset management, insurance, banking and related products and services on a global basis. , Microsoft, Nokia, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. and Yahoo! The company has offices in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Asia and Europe. For more information, visit http://www.inktomi.com/. 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