I gave up on Verity. I went to their website and scrounged all over.
Nothing. They wanted something like $25,000 for their full-blown product, so
I decided it was nuts, and totally gave up on it.
Here is what I like about dtSearch: It runs bullet fast, uses up little in
the way of resources, can be set to do its indexing magic at night, and
their tech support staff has gone out of their way to help me with dumb
questions. The thing was running within a day and hasn't conked out since.
One slick thing about dtSearch is that it automatically highlights any
matching phrases, and this is also within PDF documents. And, their search
engine can be made to behave very loose. You'll get matches with bad
spelling, similar words, etc. I can't speak for the K2 version of Verity,
but y'all know how picky the current version is with misspellings.
Oh yeah, and get this: I'm migrating our intranet content to a new
webserver, and all the dtSearch stuff transfered fine with very little
needing to be re-done. They use a relative-path directory indexing scheme,
so when I dumped all those big indexes (compare to a Collection within
Verity) on to the new webserver, they automatically worked right where I
dumped 'em. No need to re-index my content. That one feature alone made it
worth the bucks. Which would be $999 retail, from www.dtsearch.com ... And I
ain't no paid spokesman, just a happy user.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal Helms [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 3:05 PM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: RE: URGENT ! fusebox model and site search
>
> ***************************** Team Allaire *****************************
> Alan,
>
> Have you worked with the new K2 version of Verity in CF 5? Is it still
> fairly lame? (I know virtually NOTHING about Verity).
>
> Hal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McCollough, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 5:09 PM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: RE: URGENT ! fusebox model and site search
>
>
> Yeah, but when you have the [IMHO] lamest (Verity) search engine ever? I
> gave up with Verity and went to using dtSearch. Works like a champ.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 10:43 AM
> > To: Fusebox
> > Subject: RE: URGENT ! fusebox model and site search
> >
> > Using third pary spiders when you have da best web application language
> > (cf)
> > at your disposal?. No way
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tom Briscoe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 9:42 PM
> > To: Fusebox
> > Subject: Re: URGENT ! fusebox model and site search
> >
> >
> > You could consider outsourcing to a third party which will spider your
> > site.
> > But you'll pay for it.
> >
> > http://www.atomz.com/
> > http://www.searchbutton.com/
> >
> > Tom Briscoe
> > Web Developer
> > Compass Bank
> >
> > >>> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/29/01
> > 10:27AM >>>
> > Hi,
> > I need to develop a site search functionality for the site i am working
> > on.
> > the site is divided into several circuit applications like news section
> ,
> > updates sections,products listings , and static pages etc .The client
> > wants
> > to have a complete site search on both the applications as well as the
> > static pages.
> > the web hosting service ,the site is hosted on has disabled verity so i
> > am
> > looking for another alterntive without using verity for this.
> > Please rush in any ideas you have for the same, except changing the
> > hosting
> > service :).
> >
> > I need some ideas urgently.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > regards,
> > Amit
> >
>
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