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files</U></A> (hit highlighting)</div> <div> <A HREF="http://parlinfo.parliament.qld.gov.au/help/menuassi.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://parlinfo.parliament.qld.gov.au/he"><U>Menu-Assisted Query</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://parlinfo.parliament.qld.gov.au/help/command.htm#CommandBasedOperatorRef" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://parlinfo.parliament.qld.gov.au/he"><U>Command-Based Query Parameters</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://parlinfo.parliament.qld.gov.au/help/addition.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://parlinfo.parliament.qld.gov.au/he"><U>Additional Query Features</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.excalib.com/products/webx/index.shtml" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.excalib.com/products/webx/ind"><U><B>RetrievalWare WebExpress</B></U></A><B> , from Convera (formerly Excalibur Technologies)</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.verity.com/search.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.verity.com/search.html"><U><B>Verity Search</B></U></A><B>, from Verity Corporation</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Comments:</B></div> <div> <B>PDF Highlighting Support</B></div> <div> Like PDF WebSearch and dtSearch Web, ISYS Web and Verity Search both support search-term-highlighting and hit-page-navigation.  RetrievalWare WebExpress was a disappointment.  When you launch the PDF file, it flashes a message saying "Creating Highlighted Document and Jumping To It..." but then the PDF file opens without any highlighting.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Opening PDF as HTML-text Option</B></div> <div> dtSearch Web offers this option with hit-highlighting and hit-navigation in the HTML document.</div> <bR> <div> ISYS Web offers this option with hit-highlighting but without hit-navigation.  They demonstrate PDF with highlighting but not PDF without highlighting.</div> <bR> <div> WebExpress offers PDF as HTML-text as the default hyperlink option (from the Title field), and PDF without highlighting as the alternate.</div> <bR> <div> Verity offers PDF with or without highlighting, but no HTML text option.</div> <bR> <div> PDF WebSearch only links to the PDF with highlighting.  No PDF without highlighting or PDF as HTML Text option is demonstrated, although these could be added if desired because they are supported by dtSearch.</div> <bR> <div> Whereas WebExpress and Verity use the PDF icon as a hyperlink to open the PDF without highlighting, PDF WebSearch uses it as a link to get the Acrobat Reader.</div> <bR> <div> PDF WebSearch is the only product using Tooltips to tell what the link is for.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Phrase Searching</B></div> <div> dtSearch, PDF WebSearch, ISYS Web and Verity support phrase searching.  An example of a phrase is  "english history", entered without quotes.  WebExpress treats a phrase as two words, "english" and "history".</div> <bR> <div> <B>Phrase Hits</B></div> <div> dtSearch and ISYS Web consider the phrase "english history" to be 2 hits, because there are two words.  PDF WebSearch considers it to be 1 phrase hit.  Verity Search and Excalibur WebExpress do not express relevancy in terms of hits, but rather compute a relevancy percentage.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Document Summary</B></div> <div> WebExpress displays the first 256 characters of the text.  Verity extracts and displays the first 256 characters of the first text paragraph of the document (intelligently bypassing the header info at the top of the page).  </div> <bR> <div> WebExpress offers sentence snippets with the search words highlighted and hyperlinked, but this appears to work only with HTML, not with PDF.</div> <bR> <div> PDF WebSearch uses either the contents of a Summary meta-field stored in the document, or the first 512 characters of the document text.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Use of custom metadata fields</B></div> <div> It appears that ISYS Web cannot store or use fields.  Verity and WebExpress claim they can in documentation, but provide no demonstration.</div> <bR> <div> PDF WebSearch is the only one demonstrating the use of custom fields.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Resorting of Search Results</B></div> <div> PDF WebSearch is the only product offering this feature.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Search Refinement</B></div> <div> PDF WebSearch is the only product offering this feature.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Boolean or Natural Language search options</B></div> <div> dtSearch, PDF WebSearch, Verity and ISYS Web offer this feature.  WebExpress is natural language only, it appears.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>