• Enables relevant searches
• Offers security and authentication
• Provides spelling suggestions and title replacements
• Includes spidering and intelligent indexing
• Enables relevance tuning and editorial control
• Allows for contextual summaries and grouping results

OU Search allows your website visitors to conveniently Search for site content without installing any special software or hardware. It helps customers find important material that they might have otherwise overlooked. 

 At the heart of OU Search is a powerful spidering engine that reads each page of a website and builds a searchable index of all the text. Spidering is performed regularly to ensure any changes, or newly added pages, are recorded and accurately indexed.

• Search Relevance
  OU Search enables improved one-word and multi-word queries with enhanced Search options that include keyword, phrase, wildcard, field, range, implied Boolean, and advanced operators. Relevance has been optimized through enhanced linguistics techniques, stemming, link analysis, and weighting based on term location, frequency, and rarity.
• Security and Authentication
  A hit-level filtering of Search results is supported for both basic and NT Challenge/Response authentication, thereby ensuring that only those documents that an end-user is authorized to view will appear.
• Spelling Suggestions and Title Replacements
  Alternative spellings are automatically suggested for misspelled queries, using a dictionary dynamically built from the index. Likewise, incorrect or missing document titles are intelligently replaced with meaningful, automatically generated titles to help users find the documents faster.
• Spidering and Intelligent Indexing
  Patterns in HTML pages are recognized so that the spider indexes only the relevant content (adaptive spidering), and skips over navigation, menus, advertisements, and common template-generated text. Filters can be customized to match local page conventions and Templates. A single query can be used to Search for information spread across a variety of system repositories and written in a variety of programming languages, including dynamically generated web pages.
• Relevance Tuning and Editorial Control
  Search results can be tuned to match site information with options that deliver comprehensive control over the relative weighting of metadata fields.
• Contextual Summaries and Grouping Results
  Contextual summaries allow end-users to quickly evaluate query results by scanning document descriptions created by intelligently extracting relevant passages in matching documents. In addition, a feature to group results by folder location helps end-users to quickly sort through results and determine relevancy.

Specification may vary based on your website needs.  Please contact your OmniUpdate sales representative to discuss the best solution for your institution.