Thing Finder Server provides users with a powerful new way to search for specific information on the Web or a corporate portal. It identifies the role of each word within a document and then indexes and highlights key entities, such as places or names.
Users can then obtain additional information about the highlighted entities.
With Thing Finder Server's Active Annotation, we have created a much more powerful way to index and categorize nuggets of information than what a user would normally retrieve from a word-based search. We believe Thing Finder Server will revolutionize the delivery of relevant information regardless of where the user is on an active Web page or an email message. Consumer and intranet portals, online publishers and Web information services can utilize Thing Finder Server to significantly improve search results, enhance online information directories and provide end users with a unique search and browse experience. A drop-in server engine, Thing Finder Server runs on web servers such as Microsoft Internet Information Server and Apache, and supports Java Beans, Active X, ASP and JSP formats. Webmasters will find the engine quick and easy to implement with virtually any application that processes textual information.