[Info-vax] Looking for some text search ideas

[Paul Sture]

On 2014-09-30, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 September 2014 05:04:24 UTC+1, chaosLess  wrote:
>> Omnidex is a product that allows an application to build fast text searches.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Have seen it used in very large organization as means to index comments
>> and descriptions for products - just   %like% gasket    
>> 
>> It sounds like that is the sort of thing you are looking for they are
>> at www.disc.com 
>> 
>> hope that helps,
>
> Well if we're going commercial... didn't HP recently buy something
> in the unstructured (but definitely not free) text search tools
> subject area?

Definitely not free though there seems to be a bit of argy-bargy about how
much one would pay for such a thing.

> I forget the exact name, AutoNotMe, or something like that?

Your choice sums up the current squabble quite succinctly.

In what could be a record attempt at busting news reader line length, it
looks like a life on the ocean wave for some:

<http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2014/09/12/hey_hp_shareholders_mike_lynch_is_set_to_buy_a_180foot_superyacht_with_his_autonomy_loot/>

Oh and let's not forget Larry:

<http://allthingsd.com/20121121/oracles-ellison-vindicated-in-autonomy-pr-flap-by-hps-8-8-billion-writedown/>

Don't bother with the scribd link at the bottom of that page, for Oracle are
kindly hosting the presentation PDFs for us:

<http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/features/autonomy-presentation-1-505952.pdf>
<http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/features/autonomy-presentation-2-505955.pdf>

Their own text search algorithms could have probably told them that Larry
dropped out of college early and might not be too impressed with a board
packed to the gunwhales with academics[1], but what do we know?

[1] pp 14-15 of the first FDF

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