IBM and Yahoo! Gives Enterprise Search Software for Free

IBM and Yahoo! today introduced free search software with Web search services that enables businesses to easily find and access information stored within organizations and across the Web.

IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition offers support for up to 500,000 documents per server, more than 200 file types and documents in more than 30 languages with 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 one-click access to send queries to Yahoo! web, image, video, audio, directory, local and news search services. The software also uses the open source Lucene indexing library to provide cross-platform full text indexing.