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["Gina Norman" <gina.norman AT nortelnetworks.com>]

Title: RE: [internetworkers] Synonym Searching On Google

Note that Free Google won't work on intranets...   :(

Starting price for the Google Appliance was $143+ last I checked.

-Gina

Gina Norman
Senior Manager, Global Web Governance
ginanorm AT nortelnetworks.com
919-905-4801 (ESN 355)
http://www.nortelnetworks.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Smith [mailto:anilorac AT nc.rr.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 6:32 PM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Synonym Searching On Google
>
>
> Ken,
>
> Google has several site search solutions.  The free one is
> very easy to
> implement per the Google expert where I work
> (WebSourced/KeywordRanking).  You have to be willing to accept an
> embedded Google logo however.  I spoke with someone who has a
> very large
> site (not immense on the scale of IBM or M$, however), and in the end
> they selected the free tool.  They choked when they heard the Google
> search appliance entry price, which is very expensive option in
> comparison.  The search appliance cost is racked since it
> requires their
> hardware.
>
> http://www.google.com/services/websearch.html
>
> The free tool used to be called "Google Search Buddy", now
> "Google Free
> <http://www.google.com/searchcode.html>"
>
> Dan
>
>
> Ken VanDine wrote:
>
> >Just when I thought Google couldn't get any better...
> >
> >We are actually considering purchasing a Google search appliance for
> >work.  Our corporate intranet has the worlds worst search engine.  I
> >have never found a document that resembles anything I was
> looking for,
> >we need Google.
> >
> >--Ken
> >
> >On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 00:23, Michael D. Thomas wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>Just read that Google added synonym searching. Don't know
> when they added it,
> >>though -- may be old news to some. It's not in the "Google
> Hacks" book, so it
> >>hasn't been around forever.
> >>
> >>You use the ~ operator to declare that you want to search
> for a term and its
> >>synonyms.
> >>
> >>http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html#tilde
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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