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  1. Russell Gould

    Director of eCommerce at Thomas Cook

    06 May 2005 16:24pm

    Russell Gould

    I am looking for some names and working examples of compaines that can develop world class in-site “Search” functionality – i.e. I want to include a quick search function on our sites and we may need some external development resource to build a good/smart search facility. I think we need something more than an off the shelf package given the complexity of some of the search terms that could be entered.  Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

  2. Chris Rourke Gold

    Managing Director at User Vision

    06 May 2005 19:01pm

    Chris Rourke

    Hi Russell

    I would recommend inquira, a US based company that is expanding its UK operations, they have a a good customer focused ystem that is being used by several airline, car rental etc so may be relevant to you especially.  Check out their site and client sites.  Its expecially good at letting user type in natural language search, long queries etc.

    http://www.inquira.com/

    contact Bryan Sivak () for more info if you want.

    Cheers

    Chris Rourke

    User Vision -  www.uservision.co.uk

  3. jon bovard

    -- at --

    09 May 2005 14:52pm

    jon bovard

    check out Ashleys list here..

    http://www.e-consultancy.com/forum/102042-re-internal-site-search-applications.html?keywords=on+site+search

    On 19:01:14 6 May 2005 crourke wrote:
    >Hi Russell
    >
    >I would recommend inquira, a US based company that is
    >expanding its UK operations, they have a a good customer
    >focused ystem that is being used by several airline, car
    >rental etc so may be relevant to you especially.
    >Check out their site and client sites. Its
    >expecially good at letting user type in natural language
    >search, long queries etc.
    >
    >(http://www.inquira.com/) http://www.inquira.com/
    >
    >contact Bryan Sivak ((mailto:)
    >) for more info if you want.
    >
    >Cheers
    >
    >Chris Rourke
    >
    >User Vision - (http://www.uservision.co.uk)
    >www.uservision.co.uk

  4. Beth Strohbusch

    Web Content Management Strategist at ISITE Design Inc.

    09 May 2005 15:30pm

    Beth Strohbusch

    You may want to learn more about Ektron's approach with search.  As part of our Web content management offering (yes, I'm with the company,) we deliver  advanced XML indexing to make search much more powerful and meaningful than ever before.    Read a recent CEO Notes column titled, Beyond Site Search:  Helping Users to "Find" http://www.ektron.com/corporate.aspx?id=2046.  Learn more our solution at:  http://www.ektron.com/cms400-web-cms.aspx?id=1985.  Ektron is US-based with offices in the UK, and customers including the London Symphony Orchestra, MacMillan Publishing, the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency, the London Stock Exchange, Capco (financial services) and more. 

    On 16:24:43 6 May 2005 RussellGould wrote:

    I am looking for some names and working examples of compaines that can develop world class in-site “Search” functionality – i.e. I want to include a quick search function on our sites and we may need some external development resource to build a good/smart search facility. I think we need something more than an off the shelf package given the complexity of some of the search terms that could be entered.  Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
  5. Mike Wheeler Enterprise

    Head of Paid Media at Shop Direct Home Shopping Ltd

    10 May 2005 08:26am

    Mike Wheeler

    I would recommend Fred Hopper (www.fredhopper.com). Clients include Shop Direct, Argos, Philips, Neckermann, Waitrose to name but a few.

    Fred Hopper's product overview can be found - http://www.fredhopper.com/public/fas-overview.php?cat=1&nav=0&subcat=0&PHPSESSID=58a9155b4d456cdfdbb9aa2b4d8386a8

    Mike

  6. Elaine Lynch

    Office Manager at LShift Ltd

    10 May 2005 16:13pm

    Elaine Lynch

    Hi Russell,

    This is something that LShift Limited could probably do for you.  Are you looking for a consutlant or a developer?  Regards,Elaine

    On 16:24:43 6 May 2005 RussellGould wrote:

    I am looking for some names and working examples of compaines that can develop world class in-site “Search” functionality – i.e. I want to include a quick search function on our sites and we may need some external development resource to build a good/smart search facility. I think we need something more than an off the shelf package given the complexity of some of the search terms that could be entered.  Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
  7. Elaine Lynch

    Office Manager at LShift Ltd

    10 May 2005 16:14pm

    Elaine Lynch

    apologies for my spelling, that should read consultant.

    On 16:13:10 10 May 2005 ELynch wrote:

    Hi Russell,

    This is something that LShift Limited could probably do for you.  Are you looking for a consutlant or a developer?  Regards,Elaine

    On 16:24:43 6 May 2005 RussellGould wrote:

    I am looking for some names and working examples of compaines that can develop world class in-site “Search” functionality – i.e. I want to include a quick search function on our sites and we may need some external development resource to build a good/smart search facility. I think we need something more than an off the shelf package given the complexity of some of the search terms that could be entered.  Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
  8. Russell Gould

    Director of eCommerce at Thomas Cook

    10 May 2005 16:47pm

    Russell Gould

    Elaine,

    I am looking for proven implementations of this functionality - we have a number of developers at our disposal already but I was hoping to find a package that could be quickly and easily tailored to our various sites.  So I suppose neither developer nor consultant but rather someone who can implement this with a proven track record.  Hope that helps. 

    RG

    On 16:14:33 10 May 2005 ELynch wrote:

    apologies for my spelling, that should read consultant.

    On 16:13:10 10 May 2005 ELynch wrote:

    Hi Russell,

    This is something that LShift Limited could probably do for you.  Are you looking for a consutlant or a developer?  Regards,Elaine

    On 16:24:43 6 May 2005 RussellGould wrote:

    I am looking for some names and working examples of compaines that can develop world class in-site “Search” functionality – i.e. I want to include a quick search function on our sites and we may need some external development resource to build a good/smart search facility. I think we need something more than an off the shelf package given the complexity of some of the search terms that could be entered.  Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
  9. Elaine Lynch

    Office Manager at LShift Ltd

    10 May 2005 17:34pm

    Elaine Lynch

    Russell,

    This is something we could do for you. An example of an implementation we have already done can be found here http://www.nmk.co.uk/incremental-search

    You can find some more information about LShift at www.lshift.net and if you think we could be of any assistance and would like to contact us, Mike Rowlands, our Executive Director is the person to speak to.

    Regards,

    Elaine

    On 16:47:43 10 May 2005 RussellGould wrote:

    Elaine,

    I am looking for proven implementations of this functionality - we have a number of developers at our disposal already but I was hoping to find a package that could be quickly and easily tailored to our various sites.  So I suppose neither developer nor consultant but rather someone who can implement this with a proven track record.  Hope that helps. 

    RG

    On 16:14:33 10 May 2005 ELynch wrote:

    apologies for my spelling, that should read consultant.

    On 16:13:10 10 May 2005 ELynch wrote:

    Hi Russell,

    This is something that LShift Limited could probably do for you.  Are you looking for a consutlant or a developer?  Regards,Elaine

    On 16:24:43 6 May 2005 RussellGould wrote:

    I am looking for some names and working examples of compaines that can develop world class in-site “Search” functionality – i.e. I want to include a quick search function on our sites and we may need some external development resource to build a good/smart search facility. I think we need something more than an off the shelf package given the complexity of some of the search terms that could be entered.  Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
  10. Tony Byrne

    Managing Editor at CMSWatch

    11 May 2005 02:49am

    Tony Byrne

    On 16:24:43 6 May 2005 RussellGould wrote:
    >I am looking for some names and working examples of
    >compaines that can develop world class in-site
    >“Search” functionality – i.e. I

    Hello Russell,

    You will likely hear from many vendors out there. I'd like to suggest one vendor-neutral source (disclosure: my own site) on Enterprise and Web Search tools:

    Techncology Evaluation Report
    http://www.cmswatch.com/EntSearch/

    More on Enterprise Search
    http://www.cmswatch.com/ContentManagement/Topics/FeaturedTopic/?topic_id=11

    Good luck!

    Tony Byrne
    CMS Watch

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