European Search Vendor Table Update 1
September 16, 2009
I received a number of emails this morning, and I want to update the European search vendor league table. Omissions obviously are my fault. I will try to make adjustments going forward, putting the updates into the base table in my Web log. I have added the following entries to the table that appears at this location in Beyond Search. This series is in reverse alphabetical order as a consequence of my cutting and pasting from the master table.
| Vendor | Function | Opinion |
| Lumur Consulting | Flax is a robust enterprise search system | I have written positively about this system. Continues to improve with each release of the open source engine. |
| Interse | SharePoint metatag plug in | Based in Copenhagen, the Interse system adds useful access functions to SharePoint |
| InfoFinder | Full featured enterprise search system | My contact in Europe reports that this is a European technology. Listed customers are mostly in Norway. |
Of this group, I want to point out that I was favorably impressed with the FLAX system. I arranged with Incisive, the owner of the December international online show, to get Lemur Consulting on the program of this year’s show. The talk will be an important one, and if you are attending the show in December 2009, be sure to catch the Lemur Consulting session. The company is profitable and growing using an open source business model.
Interse is another player in the very crowded SharePoint metatagging sector. What’s interesting is that Copenhagen is home to two companies which offer products that, on the surface, share some similarities: Interse and the puzzling SurfRay. It will be interesting to see which Danish horse wins the Copenhagen SharePoint Derby. I met the management team of Interse several years ago, and that group struck me as quite adept and gifted with a laser focus. I have a contact now with InfoFinder, and I will endeavor to get more information.
One person who contacted me wanted me to include Google’s European research centers. Another wanted me to list Israeli companies. For my purposes, Hungary is about as far east as I want to go with this first list.
If a reader knows of any other systems I have inadvertently overlooked, please, write me at seaky2000 at yahoo dot com or use the comments section of this Web log. If a reader or readers want to work with me to build a more extensive list of European search and content processing vendors, please, contact me. I will post the master list in the Web log so we have a single place to see what is underway outside the myopic vision of the azure chip consulting crowd in the US.
Stephen Arnold, September 16, 2009
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what about this one: Inbenta Semantic Search engine, SaaS and in-a-box search engone based on the Meaning-text theory (Mel-cuk), it has presence in more than 20 customers, in the internet and/or the intranets of corporate companies. Has also Semantic Site Search release at http://www.inbenta.com/sitesearch for free.
see http://www.inbenta.com for more info.