33 lines about 33 search vendors. In a short article in AIIM’s E-Doc Magazine we organize the major search players into 8 categories and try to say something meaningful about each. Pay closer attention to the accompanying article — also excerpted from the CMS Watch Enterprise Search Report — “How Enterprise Search Works,” by Steve Arnold. Steve describes in some depth the various subsystems that comprise an “ordinary” enterprise search package. Read on and you’ll discover that search technology is anything but ordinary… … [CMSWatch Trends and Features]

Google Adds More Capacity to Google Mini Search Appliance. Google Inc. announced that the Google Mini has twice the search capacity at a more affordable price. The Google Mini can now search up to 100,000 documents for a lower price of $2,995. The Google Mini is an integrated hardware/software search appliance that indexes all content within a company’s intranet or public website…The entry-level Google Search Appliance now offers search of up to 500,000 documents (more than three times the previous search capacity), for $30,000 including hardware, software, and two years of customer support. Other versions of the Search Appliance can index 15 million documents or more in a single collection. The Search Appliance provides enterprise-wide search across corporate web sites, intranets, databases, business applications and content management systems. http://www.google.com/enterprise [Gilbane Report News]

Lucene Finds its Way to the Top. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has recently reclassified the Lucene search engine project from a Jakarta sub-project to a top-level ASF effort. Lucene is a full text search engine that provides an API and a set of libraries enabling powerful… [CMSwire]

Autonomy nearly doubles third quarter profits. Looks like the Homeland Security Gravy Train is an express.

X1 is “free PC software that uses an advanced indexing process that lets you find any word in any email or file on your computer, in under a second.” [Scripting News]

DaveNet: Nutch, an open source search engine. [Scripting News]

Google discloses partial customer list [Yahoo] The problem for us is that they don’t seem too “partner-friendly”.

Gary Price reports on IBM’s “Google on steroids.” [Scripting News]

Autonomy swoops on Virage. Video Play [The Register] [Tom Pierce’s Blog]

Autonomy gets in on Sarbox…

Autonomy Launches New Division – Aungate. Autonomy Corporation plc launched Aungate, a division of Autonomy offering an automated solution for enterprise compliance and litigation support…to specifically help facilitate compliance and governance discovery and analysis processes which are being now legislated by procedures such the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and the Basel II Accord.[Gilbane Report News]