We don't use Verity at all. We have been happy with the
ThunderStone
search appliance. Their home page is
http://www.thunderstone.com/texis/site/pages/Applianc
e.html
We currently have ours indexing 170,000 pages from about 84
different
servers, and explicitly including or excluding items in
various categories.
Their technical support has been excellent.
Out of the box it permits custom searches that return
results restricted to
any particular subsite or sub-subsite. We document that for
our CommonSpot
pagemasters, starting at
http://www.ohiou.edu/pagemasters/commonspot
/pageadv/customsearch.html
It is possible to define "meta search" profiles
that combine the results
from multiple specific profiles.
Another advantage of the ThunderStone appliance is the
"Best Bets" feature;
it is currently limited by the fact that it is
labor-intensive to set up,
but it works nicely. To see it in action, go to
http://www.ohio.edu/
and type "president" or "provost" in
the search box at the upper right.
You will notice that the results pages include a "Look
here first" block at
the top; the HTML that generates that is readily
customizable.
RDP
--On Friday, July 21, 2006 8:29 AM -0400 Anthony Kowalick
<tkowalic skidmore.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We are relatively new to CS(4.6.2) and are looking into
verity and site
> indexing. Everything I have read about verity seems to
be related to
> sub-sites and that collections should be no larger than
500-600 items.
>
> How does everyone handle site wide searches? Our
implementation, once
> complete, we will have more than 100,000 documents
online.
>
> Is verity an option? We are also investigating a
google mini appliance.
>
> Any assistance on Verity is much appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Tony Kowalick
>
> Tony Kowalick
> Senior Programmer Analyst/Web Developer
> Information Technology
> Skidmore College
> 518-580-5911
> -----Original Message-----
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> Justin
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 6:46 PM
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> Subject: [Commonspot] Verity Collection re-indexing
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> Morning everyone,
>
>
>
> We are running CS 4.6.2 on CFMX6.1 on Win2003.
>
>
>
> I was just wondering if anyone had come across a way to
schedule the
> re-indexing of commonspot collections; rather than
manually going to the
> 'Manage Verity Collections' page and re-indexing each
collection one by
> one!?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Justin Harding
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