I’ve just put the finishing touches on an eBook that takes readers step-by-step through the process of installing Ultraseek.
The starting point is a blank web browser, and the eBook shows you:

Where to go to get the latest Ultraseek download (currently it’s v5.6.2)
Register with Autonomy
Install Ultraseek on your test PC
Generate and install a 30-day evaluation license […]

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I was going through the Autonomy web site over the weekend, looking for current data to included in a quotation we were wrapping up. Autonomy’s results will be released on 24 October, and have been tipped to be yet another cracker of a quarter. Here are some stats for quarter 2, 2006:

Revenue was AUD 81,000,000
R&D […]

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Under Autonomy’s reseller guidelines, we’re now able to purchase in Australian dollars, not US dollars. This means hedging costs are eliminated (or at least, no longer our problem) and we’ve reworked list prices to include not only these savings but the recent improvement in the exchange rate.
Checking back on the first Ultraseek pricelist under Verity […]

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This week I had a company ask me what was meant by a “single document” in Ultraseek’s index. Ultraseek is licensed by document count tiers (starting at 5,000 documents) and this particular company was worried that the license they wanted wouldn’t handle their situation.
So here’s the answer:
The basic answer, and the one that fits most […]

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The National Archives of the United Kingdom (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) has just gone live with an Autonomy IDOL server-based solution that provides online access to the Archive’s 30 million plus documents, dating from the Domesday Book of 1086 to the present day.
IDOL differs from other search solutions in that it forms an understanding of the indexed content; […]

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Ultraseek v5.6.1 was released on 31 May 2006. It is a bugfix release and adds no new functionality.

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While I had amazon.comopen for the link in today's previous post, I thought it was time I told the First Hit community about Hurol's new book.  Hurol Inan is First Hit's 'on-demand' Analytics Consultant, an internationally recognised expert in the web analytics and search analytics fields, and a long-term buddy from our Andersen Consulting (Accenture) […]

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Ultraseek v5.6.0 was released on 3 March 2006, and is the first release under Autonomy’s ownership. This is a relatively minor release, with these new features: * Ultraseek now supports PDF 1.6 (Acrobat 7) documents. * Ultraseek can now index documents from Sharepoint websites. * Ultraseek can now index Microsoft Outlook mail messages. There have […]

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Although not released until 10 January 2006, this release was prepared prior to Autonomy’s acquisition of Verity on 1 January 2006. It’s a fairly big release, with some important under the cover features. NTLM Indexing / Filtering support Ultraseek 5.5 can now index sites protected with NTLMv2. When using hit-level authentication, Ultraseek can now filter […]

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