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The Search & Information Access Report 2009 looks at... Thunderstone: Texis / Search Appliance

"Thunderstone's approach is somewhat unique in basing its technology on a (SQL-compliant) relational database and full-text searches (allowing advanced pattern matching more traditional indexes find hard to cope with). This, and its relative speed, may be an advantage when using Texis as a search foundation to build applications on, though some of Thunderstone's more exotic custom components may be challenging to get used to. "

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Shame on Google

06-Sep-2005   --  

Google has removed a direct competitor, Thunderstone Software, from its index. Thunderstone markets an enterprise search appliance that competes directly with Google's own appliance. Neither Yahoo! nor MSN have blacklisted the company. As of Monday, 05 September, the following queries yielded no hits from Google for the Thunderstone website at thunderstone.com:

In theory, Google could have removed thunderstone.com for spamming the index, but that seems quite unlikely (Technorati shows a scant 12 links to thunderstone.com). At this writing, Google has not yet responded to a request for comments. I've never cottoned to conspiracy theories and don't believe in any future Google-led dystopia, but it's chilling -- dare I say "evil?" -- when a public search provider de-indexes a competitor of its enterprise product line.

- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst

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