Intranet Process, Planning & Development

Written by Jeffrey Haas and excerpted from the book Practical Intranet Development

Remote Site Search Service Options

Service Comments Price (US$)
AltaVista's Enterprise Search
  • Top-quality global search product with exceptionally fast servers and technicians
  • Mild customization (your logo on their pages)
  • More details available at http://services.altavista.com/
  • Pricing is by CPM (cost per thousand searches). Actual cost n/a.
    Atomz.com (free)
  • Full customization of layout
  • Atomz.com logo added to results page
  • Powerful Web interface
  • Statistical reporting included (w/ aggregate data and detailed breakdown)
  • Will index up to 500 pages on a weekly basis
  • Excellent product
  • http://www.atomz.com/search/trial_account.htm
  • free
    Atomz.com (paid)
  • Same as above, but allows re-indexing of up to 1000 pages on a daily basis (at the base end of their pricing)
  • Includes PDF and Flash support
  • Allows private domain labeling
  • Includes advanced linguistic support in 19 languages and other advanced features located at http://www.atomz.com/search/features/
  • Starts at $5000/year for 1000 pages in index
    FreeFind.com (free)
  • Limited customization of layout
  • Includes advertising banners and logo
  • Indexing allowed daily, weekly, monthly or at any time on request
  • Includes automated "site-map" and "what's new" pages
  • No limit on number of pages
  • Statistical reporting is very basic
  • free
    FreeFind.com (paid)
  • All of the above, but no advertising
  • Support for PDF documents
  • Higher-priority service and support
  • For more information on packages, see: http://www.freefind.com/plans.html
  • From $5/month to $79/month. See URL for more info.
    Google (free)
  • Allows co-branding of Google's search results pages, with your logo and theirs (limiting their results to pages on your site). Some further customization also allowed.
  • Includes advertising
  • Update schedule is arbitrary. And there is no guarantee that all your pages will be crawled
  • No reporting available
  • More info available at: http://www.google.com/services/free.html
  • free
    Google (SilverSearch)
  • Fully customizable
  • Supports all languages supported by Google
  • Includes full reporting
  • http://www.google.com/services/silver_gold.html
  • USD$599 monthly fee, USD$10 CPM beyond 1 million queries per year
    Google (GoldSearch)
  • Same as above, but designed for large sites
  • USD$1,999 monthly fee, USD$8 CPM beyond 4 million queries
    MondoSoft's MondoSearch
  • Includes vast list of features detailed at http://www.mondosoft.com/ms-features.asp
  • Includes indexing and searching of html, PDF, and Microsoft Office documents
  • Statistics reports cost additional $400/month
  • Technology includes "stemming" search inputs (corrects grammatical mistakes)
  • For more information, visit http://www.mondosoft.com/mondosearch.asp
  • $1440 setup & $315/month
    SiteMiner
  • Unlimited re-indexing to accommodate new content
  • Real-time reports on all searches performed on your site
  • No promotional advertising on search box or search results pages
  • Fully customizable formatting options
  • http://www.siteminer.com/
  • $19.95 per month or $199.00 per year. (up to 1500 pages)