IBM OmniFind was an
enterprise search
Enterprise search is software technology for searching data sources internal to a company, typically intranet and database content. The search is generally offered only to users internal to the company. Enterprise search can be contrasted with web ...
platform from
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is ...
. It did come in several packages adapted to different business needs, including OmniFind Enterprise Edition, OmniFind Enterprise Starter Edition, and OmniFind Discovery Edition. IBM OmniFind as a standalone product was withdrawn in April 2011 and is now part of
IBM Watson Content Analytics with Enterprise Search
International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is a publicly traded company ...
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IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition was a free-of-charge version that could handle up to 500,000 documents in its index and was intended for small businesses. IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition was simple to install, provided a user friendly front end for administration, and incorporated technology from the open source
Lucene
Apache Lucene is a free and open-source search engine software library, originally written in Java by Doug Cutting. It is supported by the Apache Software Foundation and is released under the Apache Software License. Lucene is widely used as a ...
project. IBM withdrew this product from marketing effective September 22, 2010 and withdrew support effective June 30, 2011.
IBM OmniFind Personal E-mail Search was a research product launched in 2007 for doing
semantic search
Semantic search denotes search with meaning, as distinguished from lexical search where the search engine looks for literal matches of the query words or variants of them, without understanding the overall meaning of the query. Semantic search seek ...
over personal emails by extracting and organizing concepts and relationships (such as phone numbers and addresses).
The project appears to have been silently abandoned sometimes around 2010.
See also
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LanguageWare LanguageWare is a natural language processing (NLP) technology developed by IBM, which allows applications to process natural language text. It comprises a set of Java libraries that provide a range of NLP functions: language identification, text ...
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UIMA
External links
IBM OmniFindIBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition
IBM OmniFind Personal E-mail Search
Online demo and review of IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition
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IBM OmniFind was an enterprise search platform from IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in A ...
Information retrieval systems