SurfRay announces a major release of its industry leading SharePoint search solution Ontolica. New search productivity enhancements include full document preview, “search as you type”, numbered refiners and search suggestions based on community context.
SurfRay Copenhagen, DK and Santa Clara, USA – December 19, 2009. The search solution developer SurfRay, with offices in the USA, UK, The Netherlands and Denmark, announces a new version of Ontolica.
”This milestone release will bring even more search productivity to customers’ SharePoint 2007 implementations and secure their investments in Ontolica when they choose to migrate to SharePoint 2010” says SurfRay CEO Søren Pallesen.
Ontolica 2010 extends the search functionality of SharePoint 2007 and upgrades without any extra license costs to SharePoint 2010 when it is released by Microsoft later next year. New functionality in Ontolica 2010 and Ontolica Preview includes:
Actionable thumbnail preview. Provides thumbnails in search results with mouse over for a configurable larger size and click for full page preview.
Full document graphical preview. Provides a preview pane in multiple screen layouts, with mouse over for larger size and click for full page preview.
Refiner counts. Appends numbers on each of the Ontolica refiners (drill downs) to let users understand how large a search result can be obtained by clicking on a refiner.
Auto suggestions. Suggests query completions in real time while typing search key words. Suggestions will be divided on community context of the end users as well as personal query history.
“Did you mean” suggestions. Interprets the user’s intent to find the best answers to search queries and will suggest corrections to misspellings.
“Search as You Type”. Real time display of top search results when search terms are keyed in. Total number of results is shown in a preview list. Documents can be opened directly from preview result list.
Ontolica 2010 is free as an upgrade for Ontolica customers with an active maintenance agreement. Ontolica Preview is an optional extra module. Both Ontolica 2010 and Ontolica Preview are available March 1st, 2010.