Built in 2005 from it’s split with Copernic, Coveo was built to offer an easy solution for companies to quickly find data through multiple type of data sources. Their search product make it possible to easily build strong queries and receive results with unique ranking algorithms. Coveo is one of the leader in the enterprise search industry and it does beat it’s competition by offering quite the most simple and complete software. Not only their crawlers offer to index the web and text documents, it can also crawl entire databases and audio/video content. Also, custom crawlers can be used for specific file systems or different data sources.
Coveo Enterprise Search was built to integrate easily in a Microsoft environment. Therefore, it respects user rights and security defined by network administrators. Up to now, Coveo has been able to support index of many millions of document and still keep search results to show up within a few milliseconds. Coveo offers a free Trial version of it’s sofwatre which can install in a fraction of time.
Coveo Enterprise Search is built to give a complete customizable product to the administrators through a clear web interface. The possibility to use load balancing for search queries and indexing makes it easy to scale the quantity of information.
Jan 26
Coveo is yet anoter boolean type search engine, like if the world needs another. Look at IBM and Yaho’s search if you want boolean. There are also plenty of freeware.
IBM and Yahoo based their product on a java open source crawler. When you need performances and quick computation through a file system, I don’t think that java is the right option. Also, Coveo was built to integrate easily into a Microsoft environment and respect it’s security layer. I’m not sure Omnifind does that job as well as Coveo does.
Please take a moment to deploy both applications and browse through all of the configuration possibilies offered by Coveo, you’ll see that Omnifind is way far behind. I am absolutely sure that benchmarks would also be better with Coveo’s Enterprise Search.
These guys know the market and have no reason to be afraid of Omnifind or other competitors in the Enterprise Search industry for Microsoft environments.