Search Technology

Almost all of our projects are about information collections - the kind of information that is inevitably language-based and readable by human eyes. All our clients have some kind of mandate to provide access to that information. The key requirement our clients bring us - regardless of the actual content of the information, and whether the accessing audience is broad and public or tightly restricted to an authorized few - the key requirement is the need to search, or more accurately, the need to find.

It is not right to bore you with hyperbolic metaphors regarding the heroics of modern search technology versus the world-encircling Dragon of Disorganization. There are entire conferences devoted to such things, and to the division of responsibility between a search engine and the human arrangement of a collection. "Brother," says the ordinary hardworking fought-through-traffic-this-morning member of the human race, "this computer had better find what I'm looking for, right NOW." At the other end of the spectrum is the librarian who scrutinizes a search tool the way a neurosurgeon surveys the scalpel tray. We do our best to please both.

Inmagic is our choice of database search technology. It is both fast and flexible - every field indexable, every field searchable. A database in our line of work generally contains informational records *about* external objects and content, though sometimes the database record is the whole of the content.

We go to dtSearch when the information collection is not part of a database; as when it consists of free-standing digital documents in any textual format: word processing docs, spreadsheets, PDF, XML, etc. dtSearch provides both a powerful indexing engine and a search interface to the indexes it creates.