IBM and Yahoo! Inc. have introduced new, free enterprise search software with web search services powered by Yahoo! designed to enable departments and businesses of all sizes to find, access, and capitalize on information stored within organizations and across the web.

IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition is a no-cost, entry level enterprise search product developed to help eliminate financial and technology barriers to intranet and web search. The new offering from IBM with web search services powered by Yahoo! can be downloaded for free and can be used with existing hardware. With support for up to 500,000 documents per server, more than 200 file types and documents in more than 30 languages, IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition has advanced features such as automatic spell correction; support for synonyms and shortcuts; wildcard support to substitute for unknown characters; query reporting; and graphical user interface customization. In addition, it is fully integrated with Yahoo! Search, providing access to send queries to Yahoo! web, image, video, audio, directory, local, and news search services. IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition is available at no charge and can be downloaded at the Omnifind product website.

(www.omnifind.ibm.yahoo.com; www.ibm.com; www.yahoo.com)

Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters Company, has added three new partners to its Taxonomy Warehouse Partner Network. Austin, Texas-based Cycorp, Los Altos, Calif.-based Ibuki, and Paoli, Pa.-based Intellisophic join the Taxonomy Warehouse Partner Network, which currently includes Thomson Gale and WAND, to bring together a collection of taxonomies, thesauri, and classification schemes to its global customer community.

Taxonomy Warehouse is a community directory and information source for vocabularies. Visitors now have access from a single source to more than 650 taxonomies, produced by nearly 300 publishers in 40 languages, and arranged in 73 subject domains. Factiva's Taxonomy Warehouse partners bring the following to www.taxonomywarehouse.com and Factiva customers: Cycorp, whose integrated taxonomies include business, education, general finance, information technology, military, and counter-terrorism; Ibuki, which consists of a set of controlled vocabularies, particularly in the areas of corporate compliance, sensitive corporate information, intellectual property, and name authority files; and Intellisophic, includes more than 100 new taxonomies in the areas of medical and pharmaceutical information, computing, economics, environmental issues, finance, espionage and counter-terrorism, general knowledge, and law.

(www.taxonomywarehouse.com; www.factiva.com)

Code Green Networks has released the Content Inspection Appliance 1500 (CI-1500) for small and midsize organizations in business and government. Code Green reports the CI-1500 enables IT and security managers to easily monitor content flows, discover data leaks and implement automated policies to prevent them.

The system supports the inspection of content flows and enforces policies in all of the most widely used TCP protocols including SMTP, FTP, HTTP and Web mail. Further, the company reports, it supports protection of structured data and unstructured content in more than 390 different file formats including Microsoft Office documents, CAD drawings, image files, rich media and industry-specific application formats.

The CI-1500 includes integrated support for the Voltage SecureMail Gateway to provide organizations with a comprehensive "protect and secure" solution, says the company. Using an on-board Mail Transfer Agent, this policy-based solution protects information from unauthorized transmission and secures authorized information by automatically encrypting messages prior to transmission. Code Green adds that the system automates compliance with privacy regulations, prevents information leaks and produces a robust audit trail without requiring user training or intervention.

Key features of the CI-1500 Include:

• Deep Content Fingerprinting for superior capacity, accurate detection and fewer false positives in all languages including non-Roman character sets;
• on-board SMTP MTA blocking capability with policy options for re-routing to a secure messaging encryption server such as PGP or Voltage;
• content connectors that enable automatic fingerprinting of content in EMC Documentum and Oracle Stellent content repositories with full use of metadata search attributes;
• flexible policy definition that provides the ability to easily define policies that meet the organization's business needs;
• predefined policy components and Web-based wizards facilitate policy definition; and
• incident and workflow management capabilities that enable the content authority to analyze an incident, take corrective action and close it.

Litigation Solution, a provider of litigation support services for law firms and corporate legal departments, has released DocuLogix, a secure, Web-based, enterprise-grade e-mail intelligence platform.

The company explains that the DocuLogix platform can process and search e-mails and their attachments in native format as well as review e-mails and attachments from other e-discovery vendors. Key features include:

• tagging for privilege or responsiveness in native formats;
• exporting production sets in native PST format, which import into most e-discovery platforms; and
• a highly scalable hosted environment.

Pricing for the services begins at $250 per gigabyte of storage and includes unlimited reviewer licenses.

Nstein Technologies Inc., a provider of text analytics and multilingual information access solutions, has signed a 10-year technology license agreement (TLA) and a three-year collaborative research agreement (CRA) with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). Under these agreements, Nstein will commercialize a search technology initially developed by NRC under the name "Factor" and ensure its ongoing development at a joint lab with NRC. Factor is a search technology capable of detecting and decoding relationships between facts and entities tagged by Nstein's advanced text analytics tools in documents and unstructured information.

(www.nstein.com)

WebSideStory has released Publish 4.0, which it describes as an on-demand Web content management solution that enables marketers to automatically drive Web site content placement based on visitor behavior captured in HBX Analytics.

As an on-demand, Web-based solution, WebSideStory Publish 4.0 puts control of Web site content in the hands of the content owners themselves, freeing valuable IT resources for other projects, says the company. With the launch, WebSideStory completes the integration between the different components of its on-demand digital marketing suite, including Web analytics (HBX), site search, Web content management and keyword bid management.

Additional features in WebSideStory Publish 4.0. include:

• content integration from external sources,
• PHP-based templating system,
• automatic generation of HBX analytics tags for easy analysis, and
• a new and familiar user interface.

Mercado announces that its search and merchandising solution is immediately available for automated integration via Omniture Genesis, a new program designed to reduce the complexity of measuring online marketing campaigns and increase results by automating the integration of marketing applications into the Omniture Online Business Optimization platform.

Omniture reports Genesis enables plug-and-play online marketing--which, it claims, is an essential capability for powering Web 2.0--by offering a catalog of pre-built integrations that can be visually mapped by the marketer to create an integrated marketing ecosystem.

FAST Search and Transfer reports it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Platefood Ltd., which was originally set up as a joint investment in 2005 by Schibsted SØK AS, Sensis Pty and FAST to offer online search services and search-based advertising solutions to media and online directories companies.

FAST intends to consolidate the Platefood business into its current operations to capitalize on the rapidly growing market for search-based monetization solutions. Platefood Performance leverages FAST's Enterprise Search Platform (ESP) to offer a scalable, high-performance and flexible solution, meeting the high demand for monetization services from global companies, current customers and partners.

Enonic, a content management provider in Scandinavia, has entered the U.S. Java-based Web content management space with Vertical Site 4.0, a portal framework that enables content presentation and construction of complete Web sites for the Internet, intranets and extranets.

The company says Vertical Site highlights include:

• ease of use with minimum training for both developers and content contributors;
• a complete set of template style sheets and configuration examples;
• ease of integration with other systems;
• professional support and thorough documentation;
• optimization for search engines;
• advanced caching technology;
• support for all major databases, application servers and user directories;
• Java-based (J2EE) and open standards; and
• integration with portals from leading vendors.

Endeca and Clarabridge have announced a partnership that calls for integration between the Endeca Information Access Platform (IAP) and popular business intelligence (BI) tools from Clarabridge.

According to the terms of the deal, Endeca will resell Clarabridge BI Connectors for Business Objects, Cognos and MicroStrategy BI platforms as value-added components of the Endeca IAP. Endeca says the combined offering will help its IAP customers extract additional value from BI investments, unite reports and key metrics with other key application data and content sources, and extend business intelligence to a wide audience of users.

FatWire Software has introduced a number of new features new features to its Content Server that allow businesses to deliver Web 2.0, or "social computing" visitor experiences.

FatWire's newest social computing modules include:

Blogs. Administrators can quickly create new blogs in seconds by copying existing ones; blog owners can post new entries, review and approve comments; and blog readers can write comments, browse by category and search. All workflow, revision tracking, and publishing features can be leveraged in blog sites.

Forms. Businesspeople can create form pages or simply add fields to existing pages for use in polls, surveys, customer feedback, registrations, product reviews and customer testimonials. User-generated content can be captured and published to sites. Information provided by site visitors can be added to their profiles and used for personalizing the online experience during subsequent visits and interactions.

Tagging. Site visitors can assign tags to items to make it easier for other visitors and themselves to find information.

E-mails and landing pages Marketers can design and send personalized e-mail marketing campaigns to drive new traffic to their site and to provide information and marketing offers to customers; non-technical people can use Content Server's InSite Templating feature to design and deploy campaign-specific landing pages to engage visitors who click through from e-mails, pay-per-click ads, banner ads and those who respond to offline marketing vehicles.

Google has announced it has bought Endoxon, a Swiss company focused on web-based geo-information services. With Endoxon's "blue" technology, a user can search for information or he can visualize his own collected information. The download of selected "blue" data onto the mobile phone is also possible. According to Google, it will use Endoxon's internet, mapping, and data processing business units to build out and improve the functionality of Google Earth and Google Maps across Europe.

(www.google.com)

Endeca, an information access company, has announced its membership in Omniture's Accredited Application Partner program. As a result, organizations can use a pre-configured wizard to initiate integration between the Endeca Information Access Platform and Omniture SiteCatalyst via Omniture Genesis. The Endeca IAP gives organizations the ability to deploy web and enterprise applications that deliver a user experience comprised of search, navigation, rich context-sensitive presentation, visualization, and analysis.

Omniture SiteCatalyst provides organizations with actionable, real-time intelligence regarding their online strategies and marketing initiatives. Omniture SiteCatalyst can help organizations identify and understand the most profitable paths through their websites, where visitors are dropping off, what's driving critical success events, and how different segments of visitors interact with the website.

(www.endeca.com; www.omniture.com)

Elandel Services Ltd, an Israel provider of intellectual property services, has announced the release of Deskovery v.3.15b. Deskovery permits inventors to access publicly available sources of United States patents and to see patent abstracts pertinent to their invention. Abstracts can be printed directly from Deskovery. The program has a free trivia game about inventions and patents to entertain and educate patent hunters.

Deskovery offers a compact user interface with fields where users can type in keywords related to an invention. Depending on the type of the edition (Lite or Pro), users can specify 2 or 3 keywords. Boolean 'AND'/'OR' operators can be used to customize a search too. A click on the 'Go' icon starts a search. Deskovery will respond with either 'No patents have matched your query' or with 1 or 3 patent abstracts in Lite or Pro edition respectively. When a patent search is over, users can entertain themselves by playing a game. Access to the site is available through a site link in the Deskovery software. Site clients have the choice of three patent search types, such as Standard Search/Patentability, Patent Family/Status, and Validity. Users can download Deskovery Lite and try it for free for 7 days.

Deskovery 3.15b runs under Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, 2003. For the duration of the launch campaign, the product is available for $3.99 for the Lite Edition, and $9.99 for the Pro Edition. Registered users are entitled to free technical support and upgrades.

(www.patentgate.com; www.elandel-services.com)