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Verity's UltraSeek 5.2: Page 2 of 3

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We were able to select documents from the index and add them to a topic. For example, the www.nwc.com/people/* URL string captured all the biographical pages for NWC's staff and put them in the "People" topic we had defined. Thanks to a keyword field, the topic can also be summoned by normal searches.

Clean Interface

Administrators configure the style of the interface, making it easy to use. They also get detailed reports on user queries, along with information on document distribution within the topic hierarchy.

Unfortunately, server logs are raw text files generated from a syslog facility. If you don't have a syslog server running, it's difficult to determine when a collection started or stopped indexing. Additionally, logs can't be summoned through Internet Explorer, given known issues with "nonstandard browser behavior."

Overall, Ultraseek is solid. Its indexer isn't exceptionally fast, but its search-result relevancy is on a par with that of other search engines.