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gsa-faceted-search helps you build a faceted search experience.  The filters are static but provide a very rich ability to filter without a hole lot of XSLT modifications.  There is a simple 3 step process documented here on adding it to your search interface.

For Immediate Release

Today, MC+A announces that Michael Cizmar, president of MC+A, will be serving on the advisory board of Dieselpoint’s OpenPipeline.

Currently, search, text analytics and connector vendors find themselves constantly reengineering their software to integrate with closed, proprietary systems. OpenPipeline works out-of-the-box with Dieselpoint Search, but can be used with any search engine.

“Since 2002, we have been working with our clients to implement search technologies. We see a tremendous potential for our clients because OpenPipeline simplifies many of the complexities of the UIMA. We are very excited to be working with another great Chicago technology company like Dieselpoint”, said Michael Cizmar, President of MC+A.

Both broader and simpler than IBM’s UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture), OpenPipeline provides a common architecture for connectors to data sources, file filters, text analyzers and modules to distribute documents across a network. It is fully functional out of the box and includes an installer, a job scheduler, file scanner and crawlers, doc filters, and point and click interface with drag and drop module installation.

Document processing can be centralized or parallelized as needed. The transport mechanism is simple, web-services XML over HTTP. Atom feeds are also possible.

The development philosophy behind OpenPipeline stresses simple, elegant design, and massive scalability. Minimal external dependencies and straightforward plug-in implementation ensure that the learning curve is low.

OpenPipeline Beta is available for free download via the Apache License 2.0. Current Advisory Board members include individuals from enterprise search, text analytics and connector firms and consultancies. More information can be found at http://www.openpipeline.org/.

MC+A is dedicated to solving business challenges by enabling organizations to derive maximum value from their business intelligence assets. With expertise in areas of portal development, management and architecture, and supporting technologies – MC+A builds applications, defines processes and leads implementations which help our clients leverage processes and information as a strategic business asset. More information can be found at: http://www.mcplusa.com/

Contact:
Jeff Gilleland
MC+A
773-239-7019 x333
Jeff.gilleland@mcplusa.com

Last year, Google Enterprise published a custom Keymatch OneBox project written in Java. We ported it to C# for those .NET inclined.

Project Description

This OneBox module mimics the Google Search Appliance’s built-in KeyMatch functionality. By using this instead of the built-in KeyMatch feature, you can customize the C# Service implementation to provide alternative behavior that better suits your needs.

Check it out.

Thanks to Adam Jenkin for reporting an issue with the GSALib. We now have released an update that moves the configuration from a seperate file to the appSettings of the configuration file.

There is also the simplest of demonstrations of how to use the library in an ASP.Net VB application.

Please goto: http://www.codeplex.com/GSALib to download the updates.

There has been many requests for a .NET library that accesses the Google Search Appliance. We are happy to release to the community a open source C# version based on the work Inxight did previously.

Check out the project at:
http://www.codeplex.com/GSALib

Will love to hear any feedback!

There are two quietly release open source projects for the Google Appliances. The first allows for some javascript parameteric filter (aka facetted navigation) and the second implements search as you type (i.e. Google suggest).

Take a look at them here:

Parametric
http://code.google.com/p/parametric/

Search as you type
http://code.google.com/p/search-as-you-type/

Both these will be now included in our JumpStart services to be implemented during the jumpstart.