| 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/
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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free |
| Google (SilverSearch) |
Fully customizable
Supports all languages supported by Google
Includes full reporting
http://www.google.com/services/silver_gold.html
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USD$599 monthly fee, USD$10 CPM beyond 1 million queries per year |
| Google (GoldSearch) |
Same as above, but designed for large sites
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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
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$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/
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$19.95 per month or $199.00 per year. (up to 1500 pages) |