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| PERFORMANCE | ||
| Number of Pages Supported | 500,000 and up | 500,000 and up |
| INVESTMENT (Cost of Ownership) | ||
| Startup Cost | $20,000 | $30,000 |
| License Type | Perpetual | 2-3 years Must be renewed to continue working. |
| Maintenance and Support (first two years) | included | included |
| Maintenance and Support (years 3+) | Available | Requires license renewal at full cost |
| QUERIES | ||
| Detect misspellings and suggest corrections | Yes | Yes |
| Search multiple file types, including HTML, Office and PDF | Yes | Yes |
| Standard Thesaurus | Yes | Yes |
| Custom Thesaurus | Yes | Yes |
| Advanced Search | Yes | Yes |
| Stemming | Yes | Yes |
| Wildcard | Yes | Whole words only |
| Metasearch (across collections) | Yes | Yes |
| SEARCH RESULTS | ||
| Relevance Ranking | Customizable | Customizable |
| Sort results by date | Yes | Yes |
| Query terms highlighted | Yes | Yes |
| Dynamic summaries | Yes | Yes |
| Highlighting PDF hits | Yes | No |
| Force to top (Best Bets, Keymatch) | Yes | Yes |
| CRAWLING | ||
| Crawl third-party websites | Yes | No |
| Index documents on multiple servers | Yes | Yes |
| Filter by file types, meta tags, web sites | Yes | Yes |
| Crawl dynamic content | Yes | Yes |
| Crawl password protected areas | Yes | Yes |
| Forms-based authentication | Yes | Yes |
| Continuous crawl | Yes | Yes |
| Multiple collections | Yes | Yes |
| Read, index and follow JavaScript | Yes | No |
| Read, index and follow Shockwave/Flash | Yes | No |
| Index file servers without setting up a web server | Yes | No |
| Remove common (navigation menus etc) | Yes | No |
| Duplicate Removal | Yes | No |
| Lotus Domino | Yes | Yes |
| Proxy Server Support | Yes | Yes |
| ADMINISTRATION | ||
| Web-based Administration Console | Yes | Yes |
| Search results customizable with XSLT templates | Yes | Yes |
| Document Level Security | Yes | Yes |
| Web-based reports | Yes | Yes |
| URL Tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Remote Management - anytime anywhere | Yes | Yes |
| Remove URLs in real-time | Yes | No |
| Add URLs in real-time | Yes | No |
| Remote Diagnostics | Yes | Yes |
| Support includes major releases | Yes | Yes |
| Telephone support | Yes | Optional |
| INTEGRATION | ||
| Content Management | Yes | Yes |
| Index most languages | Yes | Yes |
| XML output option | Yes | Yes |
Feature list based on Google Product Features web pages. Google, Google Mini and Google Search Appliances are trademarks of Google Inc.
