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Desktop and network search developments

There is a ton of news on search products, both from new startups and established players.

First, on the startup side, eWeek has a overview piece on new approach to search technology around clustering results, discussing startups Clush (child company of InfoSpider) and Clusty (by Vivisimo). Again from eWeek we have a new product/company announcement from Coveo Solutions (spun off from Copernic this week).

Concerning Google, we have a piece on Google’s search initiatives which discusses their revamped enterprise applicance strategy. See also this NWFusionpiece.

Competitors include vendors focused on enterprise search such as Verity Inc., FAST Search & Transfer ASA, Autonomy Corp. and Endeca Technologies Inc.
But the enterprise search market is a multifaceted one, and Google’s appliance approach does work well for SMBs (small and midsized businesses) that want a fast and less expensive way of building search into external and internal Web sites, said Susan Feldman, a research vice president at market researcher IDC, in Framingham, Mass.

Finally, we have news around Yahoo!. Last week, they announced the purchase of Stata Labs, maker of email search software Bloomba. This week, we have the announcment of a partnership between Yahoo! and Adobe in search, taking place in the form of a search toolbar that can search within Adobe’s Acrobat pdf format.