Help: what is the best search engine to use in regulatory, legal affairs and competitive intelligence departments?

[Peter Stoehr]

John,
maybe worth peeking at:

Stratify
Verity K2
Inktomi
Autonomy
Oracle interMedia (now Oracle Text)
AltaVista

... quite difficult to evaluate comprehensively I found.

Being in a pharma, maybe you have Oracle already, and I think
that Oracle Text is getting quite serious for some text processing purposes.
Anyway we have looked closest at Oracle and Verity for a biomedical text
search engine - quite a difficult task to evaluate them all sensibly !

But also ask in comp.infosystems.search or look around at:
http://searchenginewatch.com/
http://www.searchtools.com/index.html


Regards,
Peter Stoehr
EMBL-EBI

John wrote:
> 
> Working at a knowledge management division in a pharma co. I am
> currenlty starting to look for search engines to use in our
> regulatory, legal affairs and competitive intelligence departments.
> 
> I was wondering if anybody could provide some other technologies than
> Verity and Autonomy that might worth considering for my evaluation
> process?
> 
> I would also appreciate if you could  share your feedback about these
> technologies.
> 
> Thanks
> ---