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Web Masters

There is quite an array of free web site search systems available. Most of these are scripts which can scan for a word or phrase.They are okay -- unless you seriously want people to be able to find content on your web site.

You work hard to set up clean, attractive, readable content. You want people to have access. Good search capability matters.

Would you like to see what good search looks like for your site? Fill in and submit the request form for a free trial of Words Close Together search capability for your web site. Normally, it will be ready for viewing and testing within two business days. Simply watch for an email from us. Experience new access to the content at your web site. We believe that it will delight you.

Clients and guests at your web site can have the same experience, if you choose to subscribe to web site search capability from the Words Close Together people.

Searching other resources at your site: Many sites offer downloads of books, document collections, and other resources that are not web pages as such. These can be made fully searchable on your site. The ability to search these additional materials may draw greater traffic to your web site.

Premium search: If your site offers an enhanced experience to subscribers or members, you many be interested in an unusual feature of Words Close Together. You can equip users to build their own searchable data sets focused on areas of their particular interest. The user inputs search terms that define that interest. The system searches across a series of WCT data sets hosted at your site, extracts results that contain the specified search terms, and builds a new searchable data set based on those results. The user is given personal access to this new collection, which is all fully searchable. It's a great help, especially to writers, students, teachers, and researchers.

Information Technology Departments

IT departments are often project driven. Staff is under pressure to get projects complete. Despite best efforts and long hours, the project list seems always to expand rather than to shrink. In this kind of environment, it is all too easy to lose sight of the underlying mission -- to make the knowledge base of the organization accessible to all employees within a need-to-know framework.

Visualize the following scenario. You are free to implement this sequence one step at a time, and draw a halt whenever you wish.

Step 1: Start by requesting the free trial described above. Your external Internet pages are indexed for you. Within a couple of business days you have a preliminary basis to evaluate the Words Close Together search capability applied to your own data. Cost: 15 minutes for one person to make the request, half an hour of someone's time to evaluate the result. Financial risk: zero. Confidentiality risk: zero.

Step 2: An external consultant signs a confidentiality agreement sufficiently restrictive to ensure your comfort. The consultant is given access to a representative selection of data from your Intranet. Some days later you are provided a series of WCT searchable data sets and software to mount on your Intranet. Capabilities include all the standard Words Close Together features...

... plus the ability to generate new focused searchable data sets resulting from searches across those provided to you.

Your financial exposure (cost) up to this point is zero.

Step 3: If you wish to proceed further, enter a full implementation of the system as a new project into your queue, and decide what resources you would like to allocate to it. Requirements may include a component of training time for a handful of your staff. If you have unusual formats or special needs, either your staff or the consulting firm may need to write custom filters to extract and format text suitable for your needs. Schedules need to be put in place. And, yes, the consultant firm will welcome your financial commitment.

Ideal outcome: You wind up with in-house ability to package your data for meaningful search, on a need-to-know basis within your organization. Your employees have the ability to find content anywhere within their security purview. The ability to generate new searchable data sets on request is particularly significant. For example, an employee has a task ahead for the morning. She inputs a search request. Within a short interval (a few seconds to five minutes), she has at her fingertips all of the firm's knowledge base on the topic at hand. It is all fully searchable, results from this focused data set show up instantly, and the relevance ranking is meaningful. Isn't it sweet actually to be able to find things?

If your organization already has all these capabilities, please disregard this message.

Value Added Resellers

We are looking for firms that serve information needs of niche markets. There is an almost endless variety of needs that would be better served with meaningful search, for example, medical records, email discovery, government regulations, content of software help systems, magazines, blogger archives, hobby interests, sports, etc. Does your organization's client base need more precise, easier to use, means to get at information important to them?

We would like to equip you with the software you need. The Textract program may cover your preparation needs. If not, and if your organization has either programmers or access to computer programming skills, we can provide software source code that can speed up your efforts to extract, format, and prepare text information. With a subscription to the Words Close Together indexing capability, you then have everything needed to provide your clients with the effective search capability that they need.


 
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