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content sources making this a complex task to address<br />

comprehensively in an enterprise search environment.<br />

• Text clustering, which groups the top several<br />

hundred search results into topics that are computed on<br />

the fly from the search-results descriptions, typically<br />

titles, excerpts (snippets), and meta-data. This technique<br />

lets users navigate the content by topic rather than by the<br />

meta-data that is used in faceting. Clustering compensates<br />

for the problem of incompatible meta-data across<br />

multiple enterprise repositories, which hinders the<br />

usefulness of faceting.<br />

• User interfaces, which in web search are deliberately<br />

kept simple in order not to distract the user from clicking<br />

on ads, which generates the revenue. Although the<br />

business model for enterprise search could include<br />

showing ads, in practice this is not done. To enhance end<br />

user productivity, enterprise vendors continually<br />

experiment with rich UI functionality which occupies<br />

significant screen space, which would be problematic for<br />

web search.<br />

The factors that determine the relevance of search<br />

results within the context of an enterprise overlap with<br />

but are different from those that apply to web search. In<br />

general, enterprise search engines cannot take advantage<br />

of the rich link structure as is found on the web's<br />

hypertext content, however, a new breed of Enterprise<br />

search engines based on a bottom-up Web 2.0 technology<br />

are providing both a contributory approach and<br />

hyperlinking within the enterprise. Algorithms like<br />

PageRank exploit hyperlink structure to assign authority<br />

to documents, and then use that authority as a queryindependent<br />

relevance factor. In contrast, enterprises<br />

typically have to use other query-independent factors,<br />

such as a document's recency or popularity, along with<br />

query-dependent factors traditionally associated with<br />

information retrieval algorithms. Also, the rich<br />

functionality of enterprise search UIs, such as clustering<br />

and faceting, diminish reliance on ranking as the means<br />

to direct the user's attention.<br />

V. ORACLE ULTRA SEARCH<br />

Oracle Ultra Search allows you to reduce the time<br />

spent finding relevant documents on your company’s<br />

information repositories. It crawls, indexes and makes<br />

searchable your corporate intranet through a Web-style<br />

search. It eliminates the need for coding against hard-touse<br />

low level API’s. It organizes and categorizes content<br />

from multiple repositories by extracting valuable<br />

metadata that can be used in portal applications [1].<br />

A. Comprehensive Security Support<br />

In Ultra Search, security has been comprehensively<br />

addressed:<br />

• Searches return only documents that a particular<br />

user is allowed to see – based on group membership and<br />

user privileges.<br />

• Integrated with LDAP. All data sources in your<br />

enterprise and Ultra Search share a common<br />

user .namespace.<br />

• Query API and query samples allow for specifying a<br />

search user. Only users known to your corporate LDAP<br />

server can submit searches.<br />

• All your resources. Web pages, rows in database<br />

tables, emails in IMAP accounts. Can now be protected<br />

by Access Control Lists (ACL).<br />

• Ultra Search can obtain ACLs directly from your<br />

repositories.<br />

• Search Administrators can specify authorization<br />

roles directly in the Ultra Search administrative interface<br />

by entering a grant. List of LDAP users, and groups,<br />

which are allowed to search documents. For example, all<br />

documents retrieved during a crawl can be marked<br />

searchable by anyone belonging to groups G1, G2 and G3.<br />

Or, all users U1, U2 and U3 can be granted permission to<br />

search all documents crawled.<br />

• High performance implementation. ACLs are<br />

cached in memory and evaluated at run time during query<br />

invocation. Authorization automatically turned off if<br />

there are no secure documents in an Ultra Search instance.<br />

B. Ultra Search Applications<br />

Enterprises can benefit by using Ultra Search in many<br />

different types of applications:<br />

• Portal Search--Ultra Search offers the most powerful<br />

search for Enterprise Portals developed with the Oracle<br />

Enterprise Portal Framework. For organizations who<br />

want to build their own portal from scratch, Ultra Search<br />

provides a canned, end-useroriented, web-style search<br />

over various corporate databases, HTML pages, IMAP<br />

email servers, or filesystem documents.<br />

• Web Search for Oracle Text--Ultra Search is an<br />

application built on Oracle Text, Oracle’s industry<br />

leading text retrieval engine.<br />

• Content Management Search--Media organizations<br />

creating or publishing content in a collaborative manner<br />

need to search across content as it moves through<br />

multiple repositories in different stages of the content<br />

management life cycle: from the desktop file of the<br />

author to the staged version in a database.<br />

VI. SYBASE ENTERPRISE PORTAL<br />

Sybase Enterprise Portal provides a personalized,<br />

Web-based entry point to all your enterprise information.<br />

It delivers a continuously available, end-to-end secure<br />

environment that integrates existing business applications<br />

and databases, real-time data feeds, business events, and<br />

Web content into a coherent information interface.<br />

Sybase Enterprise Portal is a set of services that you<br />

can use to address all aspects of the design, development,<br />

deployment, and management of a corporate portal. It<br />

provides a personalized Web site and the middleware that<br />

links data, applications, events, and content between the<br />

Web site and the rest of the enterprise.<br />

A. Comprehensive Security Support<br />

User populations for portals can be very large, creating<br />

an environment in which traditional user account<br />

management and access control cannot function well.<br />

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