SearchBlox: Targeting the Enterprise for Search

August 25, 2011

The U.S. based solutions corporation is making waves worldwide. Withmore than 300 clients (big name clients like IBM and Capitol One), thecompany has grown exponentially since its inception in 2003. We will be adding SearchBlox to our Overflight service in September 2011.

SearchBlox is an open source search application built upon the ApacheLucene software. SearchBlox offers an innovative solution toconducting enterprise searches utilizing integrated crawlers. These can process multiple file formats in the HTTP/HTTPS file system as well as news feeds. The system also supports a cloud deployment.

Built on Lucene, you can download the system without charge. “Free” is a magnetic idea in today’s business climate. SearchBlox believes that those seeking Web site, Intranet and search solutions will find the SearchBlox approach of interest.

After releasing their new 6.4 version, some of their newest endeavorsinclude utilizing it’s SearchBlox solution to search through fileslocated in the cloud. Their latest assignment is tackling the Amazoncloud. We learned:

SearchBlox also provides an end user interface which allows you tosetup your search and allow users to directly search them. UseAmazon’s Free Tier and setup your entire your store and searchcapability on the cloud. SearchBlox provides complete control overyour index.

Redtopia.com software and design is saying good things about theresults it is deriving from the software; for example:

My search [directed] me to SearchBlox, which is built on Lucene, the samesearch engine that Solr uses. It’s free, open source, and with nocommercial license limitations and works on Windows, Unix, and Mac OSX. Within minutes, I had the package installed on my local machine andI immediately started crawling my local development sites. Promising.

The privately held company is growing at a rapid pace. SearchBlox hasalready proven that its free software can rival that of the best paidsoftware in the U.S. and around the world. They’ve even trended a time or two on Twitter.

Leslie Radcliff, August 25, 2011

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.