RE: Search Engines-Amazon

Lisa,  

I'm not sure what search engine Amazon is using, but, if you are in the market for a search engine, you may want to look at Verity's products. We were going to use Verity Light, which came with our Broadvision product, but decided on Verity's K2 product. This had a much larger scalabilty. There was ability to search by ranking, natural language, advanced querying (such as like), it built its own keywords, ability to use a Thesaurus so it could find mispelled words, etc. It was pretty quick also. We never did any real performance statistics on it since the project was stopped when our company was merged with Works.com. But, it looks like we may be going back to it for our product search.  

Bob VanderMey
Oracle DBA
Works.com
847 573-2687
bvandermey_at_orderzone.com
565 Lakeview Parkway, Suite 250
Vernon Hills, IL 60061
http://www.works.com <http://www.works.com/>

-----Original Message-----
From: Koivu, Lisa [mailto:lkoivu_at_qode.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 7:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: OT:Search Engines-Amazon

Hello all, this may be a stab in the dark, and forgive me for being off topic -

By chance does anyone know what search engine Amazon is using? Or remember any articles published about what technologies they use? Their search times are amazing. Something tells me they are not using Intermedia.

Thanks

Lisa Rutland Koivu
Oracle Database Administrator
Qode.com
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Suite G104
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33319

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