| Search features |
| Finds all word variants |
Searching for computers will yield the same result as searching for computer. This means that the query results are more sensitive to the meaning of the query, and not in the exact word choice. |
| Finds spacing variants |
A search for oracle matches oracle8, Oracle 8 and Oracle-8. |
| Phrase search |
Allows users to find words that are adjacent. Multiple phrases may be searched for in the same query. For example, the query: +"health club" +"London" will match documents containing both phrases somewhere within the document. |
| Plain language search |
You can type in your query using plain language. For example, you can simply type in the question: Where are the best restaurants in the City of London? to get results. You can search on any word, including and, if, or the. |
| Proper name recognition |
Users need not "quote" proper names, or even type them with initial capital letters. The system recognizes proper names and will correctly identify them as unique terms. |
| Case sensitive |
This allows users to distinguish words that have different meaning depending on case; for example sun vs. Sun, and next vs. Next or NeXT. If a query term is all in lowercase, case is ignored. If the query term is in mixed case, the case is exactly matched. |
| Required terms |
Users can put a plus sign (+) in front of words that must be found in the document. So, the query +Bogart +Bacall will return results that contain both Bogart and Bacall. |
| Excluded terms |
Users can put a minus sign (-) in front of words that they want to reject. For example, the query beer +bitter -lager will return results for bitter beer, not the lager. Also, by using a minus sign instead of a stopword, you can even find things like to be or not to be, because the spider understands that or is part of the search, not a search condition. |
| Advanced search |
Users can fill out an advanced search form that helps them create better searches. |
| Click-and-browse search |
Users can "drill down" into topics to locate document of interest with Autonomy Content Classification Engine (CCE), an add-on component to Autonomy Ultraseek. |
| Mixed terms |
You can mix letters and numbers together, so searching for things like gif89a or t3 is a snap. |
| Sort results by date |
This feature allows users to sort their results by date, making it easy to get the most recent information on any given topic. If you don't want to sort by date, results can also be listed in order of relevance to the query itself. |
| Date range search |
Users can choose to limit documents in the search results to a date range, so their results are both relevant and current. |
| Hide or show summaries |
Users have the option of whether or not they want to display summaries on their results page. |
| Automatic summary |
For those documents that do not already have a summary built in, Ultraseek will create one. Users then have a better idea of what the document contains. |
| Search within a search |
Users can take their pool of search results and search within the pool, creating a narrower group of results. A shortcut for doing this is by using the pipe ( | ). So, a search for movies | 1939 will bring back only the results that include both terms. |
| Advanced query form |
Even beginners can perform the most relevant, specific searches by using the advanced query form. |
| Find similar |
Users can easily find information related to their original search by clicking the Find Similar link in the search results. |
| Accented characters |
Users can search with or without accents to produce the same results. This makes it easier, especially in mixed language environments, to find what you're looking for. |
| Title search |
Users can search only the titles of documents, creating a narrower pool of search results. For example, the search query title:star trek will only retrieve documents that have the words star trek in their document title. |
| URL search |
Users can search only the URLs of documents. For example, the search query url:star_trek will only retrieve documents that have star_trek in their URL. This helps to provide users with a narrower pool of search results. |
| Site search |
You can use the site field search to bring up all pages at a particular Web site. Therefore, site:sun.com will find such sites as java.sun.com, www.sun.com and playground.sun.com; but won't match the site sun.co.uk. |
| Link search |
Find how many and which documents point to a given page by using a link field search. This is useful for finding broken links, or preventing them when deleting or making a change to a page. |
| Imagelink search |
With the imagelink field, users can search for image file names within documents either to update them, or just to download them. |
| META search |
Create your own searchable field by using the HTML META tag name. For example, you can search for author:Agatha Christie, or department:marketing, or anything you want. Autonomy Ultraseek also supports Dublin Core META tags. |
| Term highlighting |
Option enables query terms to be highlighted in titles and summaries on the search results page. |
| Search within a topic |
Can conduct focused searches of documents within a single topic with Autonomy Content Classification Engine (CCE), an add-on component to Autonomy Ultraseek. With CCE, query results also display browsable topics related to the search. |
| XML field searching |
Element names can be mapped to search field names. This allows searches to be focused on a part of an XML document. |
| Extremely fast searching |
Users get a very quick response time. This means less load on the server, so you can accommodate more users. |
| Online help |
Help is always only one click away, making users more productive from day one, without the need for training. Most dialogue boxes in the administrative interface have a Help button that provides context-sensitive information, and all product and end-user documentation is available online. |
| Rotating tips |
A different tip is provided below the query box each time the user conducts a search. Administrators can even customize the tip files for optimum control over the information given. |
