Dec
2005
dtSearch 7.2 release adds Open Office support; programmable Spider interface
and Linux version gets Terabyte Indexer.
The
version 7.2 range of products (dtSearch Desktop, Network, Web, Publish, Engine)
have complete OpenOffice
file format support (Open Office 1 and 2 formats) and also support Microsoft
2003 Word XML and Excel XML formats. Developers using the dtSearch Engine
now get the much demanded .NET API for the Spider, and the Terabyte indexer
in the Linux version.
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license within the last year. If your year of free upgrades has expired, please
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dtSearch Desktop or Network 7.x: Upgrades are free
to download for all licensed users.
Upgrades from earlier versions (1.x to 5.25) are available at
special low prices
New Language Pack feature: Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) character breaker
The
LEP400 range of Language Packs is now supplied with a language analyser which
provides basic single character breaking and punctuation filtering for Hanzi,
Kanji and Hanja. This allows users of Desktop, Network, and Web to make string
searching on Chinese, Japanese and Korean documents. The analyzer breaks all
other other languages currently supported by the LEP400 range and Korean
Hangul text in the usual, space delimited 'word',
manner. The analyzer can index documents containing text in any combination
of the scripts supported by the LEP400 range (i.e. Latin, Greek, Cyrillic)
plus Traditional or Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean. An evaluation
version of the Chinese Analyser is available for download, please contact
us by e-mail for a password to download.
More
information and pricing can be found at our Language
page.
Nov 2005
Romanian stemming added to Language Packs
Support
for Romanian has now been added to the LEP400 and LEP403 Language Extension
Packs. Use of the language packs with dtSearch substantially improves recall
when search expansion using stemming is used. More information and pricing can
be found at our Language
page.
Oct 2005
Join the dtSearch 7.2 beta test program!
If
you would to like to test the new features in dtSearch Desktop 7.2 please
e-mail for a download password to support@dtsearch.co.uk;
please give brief details of your PC hardware and what Desktop Search software
you currently use, if any.
The new version has many new features and more to come soon; already included
is complete OpenOffice
file format support (Open Office 1 and 2 formats) and the latest Microsoft
2003 Word XML and Excel XML formats. Details of the new features can be found
at www.dtsearch.co.uk/beta.htm
dtSearch
in the news
- dtSearch
is included in the latest Gartner
Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology 2005 report.
The report is an expanded and renamed version of their "Enterprise Search
Technology" report.
- Redmond
Magazine Oct review of dtSearch Desktop 7.0
- Russian
company SoftInform compares search engines. If you need to search on Russian
text you may be interested in this comparison between dtSearch Desktop 7.0,
Copernic Desktop, Isys 7.0, Archivarius, Google Desktop etc. in indexing and
searching a large Russian test collection. Note that dtSearch 7 can index
over 1 Terabyte in a single index. Note also that index size as a measure
of efficiency is of little interest if search quality is poor, and if the
index does not contain sufficient data to allow advanced searching and retrieval
techiniques as used by dtSearch, such as field searching, stemming, phonic,
fuzzy, concept searching, per index stop-words, and hit highlighting on PDF
and other documents where the original layout and links are maintained.
Many more links to reviews and press quotes can be found at http://www.dtsearch.com/dtreviews.html
Sep
2005
(Requires Macromedia
Flash plug-in)
The demo shows
the execution of a number of dtSearch Web searches, and also devotes some
general screens to describing the full features of the dtSearch product line.
Click
here to go to on-line dtSearch Web demo site
These live demo
sites show examples of out-of-the-box basic and advanced search pages, as
well as customised pages with field searching etc.
Updated
Articles ("White Papers")
Our popular PDF articles on searching and indexing topics have now been updated,
and can been found on the Support page
Aug
2005
dtSearch ® 7.1 released
Latest
update includes major improvements to Developer API and dtSearch Publish.
Release
Notes ...
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license within the last year. If your year of free upgrades has expired, please
contact
us for renewal information.
dtSearch Desktop or Network 6.x: Upgrades are free
to download for all licensed users.
Upgrades from earlier versions (1.x to 5.25) are available at
special low prices
July 2005
dtSearch Language Pack adds Bulgarian and Slovenian
Bulgarian
(Cyrillic) and Slovenian are the latest additions to the LEP400
and LEP403 Language Extension Packs. This boosts the number of languages with
stemming support in dtSearch to 25, with more in development.
Language Packs
add language specific stemming rules and noise (stop) words to the dtSearch
Developer products dtSearch Engine, Web and Publish. Use of the language packs
substantially improves recall when search expansion using stemming is used.
More information and new 'bundle' pricing can be found at our Language
page.
New add-on product now in BETA
Enstant is a
new add-on product for dtSearch that fully automates the indexing process.
Of particular value to users of dtSearch Web or Network that scan in small
batches of documents (e.g. the daily post) and need to give users 'instant'
search access. Further
details here. Ask for a password
to download the Enstant BETA version now.
June
2005
dtSearch Language Pack adds Estonian and Belarusian
Estonian
and Belarusian (Cyrillic) are the latest additions to the Language
Packs LEP403 (Eastern European) and LEP400 ((Eastern + Western European),
these add language specific stemming rules and noise (stop) words to the dtSearch
Developer products dtSearch Engine, Web and Publish. Use of the language packs
substantially improves recall when search expansion using stemming is used.
More information and pricing can be found at our Language
page.
New article: "Language Matters: Cyrillic search
(122k) click
to download
Describes how dtSearch 7 finds what others search engines
miss
dtSearch Network chosen for a 2005 People's Choice
Award at Microsoft community site.
In the MSD2D
4th Annual People's Choice Award (June 2005), dtSearch Network was chosen
as the winner in the in the Component Search category. MSD2D is a leading
resource for the Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft .NET
and Microsoft server security communities.
May
2005
Announcing dtSearch ® 7 Product Line With New Terabyte Indexer
New version can
index over a Terabyte of text in a single index, with search time typically
under a second
More...
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Web, Publish or Engine who have purchased their license or an upgrade to their
license within the last year. If your year of free upgrades has expired, please
contact
us for renewal information.
dtSearch Desktop or Network 6.x: Upgrades are free
to download for all licensed users.
Upgrades from earlier versions (1.x to 5.25) are available at
special low prices
Apr
2005
New European Resellers for localised dtSearch product range
We welcome
Sienersoft AG in Switzerland and Siener Informatique in France as the latest
additions to our resellers in Europe. Both offices will be able to offer local
language sales support for our French and German localised versions of the dtSearch
range of products: Contact
details can be found on our resellers page...
Mar 2005
dtSearch achieves 1 Terabyte milestone in indexing performance
The
new index format incorporated as an option (beta) into the current dtSearch
6.5 range of products has recently been tested with an index of over 1 Terabyte
of documents. The test results demonstrate that sub second searching even
with complex queries can be acheived with an index
of over 1 Terabyte of data. Full details and test results of the new index
format which can index over 2 billion documents in a single index
can be found here: More...
Latest
beta release information and downloads can
be found here
With
its proven industrial strength dtSearch continues to be the Desktop Search
software of choice not only for professionals in the legal, intelligence,
human resources and forensic accounting fields but in Government departments
and major corporations. In Europe in the last year alone dtSearch Desktop/Network
has been chosen by the French Ministry of Defence (500+), French Ministry
of the Interior (100+), French Ministry of Agriculture and Fishing and the
European Space Agency; in the UK dtSearch was picked by DEFRA, NCIS and
other Police forces, GCHQ and the Parliamentary Counsel Office; in Germany
Bosch, BMW, Siemens and other major corporations chose dtSearch and NATO
and the British Army use dtSearch Desktop/Network throughout Europe. For
a sample of customers that incorporate the dtSearch Engine in their applications
please visit our Case
Studies page.
Feb 2005
Announcing release of dtSearch 6.5!
New release includes:
Major enhancements to the display of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.
Enhanced indexing and searching of Outlook message stores.
New feature for automatically recovering text from corrupt forensically-recovered
documents.
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Publish or Engine
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previous dtSearch 6.x versions will work with dtSearch 6.5. If you do not
have a password, please contact us.
Upgrades are free only for users of dtSearch Web, Publish or Engine who have
purchased their license or an upgrade to their license within the last year.
If your year of free upgrades has expired, please contact
us for renewal information.
dtSearch Desktop or Network 6.x
Upgrades are free
to download for all licensed users.
Earlier versions (1.x to 5.25)
Upgrades are available at special
low prices
Jan
2005
Happy 2005!
Do you know that
31 July 2005 is the deadline for the new German language spelling reform, after
that date all official publications in Germany must comply with the new spellings.
However, private citizens in German speaking countries can continue to use the
old spellings. If you or your organisation need to search on German documents
you should make sure that the search tool you are using can understand both
old and new spellings. Using dtSearch Engine with the Western European Language
Pack for example will ensure that your application or Internet/Intranet site
can find documents spelled either with a "scharfes s" like this: 'Straße'
even if a search query uses a double-s instead like this: 'Strasse'.
Ukraine has a new
President but the languages remain the same. Our Eastern
European Language Pack includes Ukrainian and Russian as well as
8 other languages and will ensure you never miss a document or web page because
you forgot to use the correct word form.
New Language Pack updates
Czech and
Slovak are the latest additions to our Language Packs LEP403 (Eastern
European) and LEP400 ((Eastern + Western European), more are in the pipeline
for 2005!
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