Completely agree on the taxonomy comment. I have lead several taxonomy intiatives over the last 5 years, and they have ALL followed what is now a predictable path that involves the creation of a powerful navigation and classification product that is generally overbuilt for the clients needs. In most cases there are ways to leverage existing technologies to achieve most of the business requirements for a "taxonomy" project without incuring huge payroll or licensing expenses.
mb -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 12:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Shiva Kumar T Subject: Re: [cms-list] Information required regarding Search / Taxanomy At 6:03 PM +0530 12/6/02, Shiva Kumar T wrote: >Hi all, >I want to know the generic architecture of a search engine and >different types of search engines available. Please see my site, <http://www.searchtools.com>. I don't have it organized quite like that, but I think you'll find the content very useful. >I want to know all the vendors giving evaluation copies. In my experience, all the low-end vendors give out evals, but the Verities and Autonomies of the world (who aren't really search engines any more anyway) will not. >The same information i want for the taxanomy engines. <http://www.searchtools.com/info/classifiers.html> provides an introduction and links to some resources for taxonomy engines. Before doing a lot of taxonomy work, you should definitely step back and think about what you want to do and why. Please contact me directly if you would like additional help with search engines. Avi Rappoport Search Engine Consultant -- Complete Guide to Search Engines for Web Sites and Intranets <http://www.searchtools.com> -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma. -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
