In a world of information overload, having the best and most relevant information at your fingertips is central to good decision making.

For those interested in only specific topics, the solution is to use a customized search engine.  A niche search engine that is completely customized to your very specific area of interest will provide immediate and compelling adoption by a user community such as a global professional body or a specialist area such as cancer research, regional tourism or some particular aspect of the law, market or technology.
Amco IT Systems has developed a patented new generation of search engines. The company has taken a significant lead the design, development and deployment of these specialist search engines. Multi-lingual support, knowledge-based ranking protocols, predictive searches as well as search refinement techniques all contribute to a compelling case for tools that are customized for particular markets and particular communities of users.

Relevancy

In search, relevancy is everything. Whilst the idea is simple, its effective implementation on an industrial scale is not.

The main idea behind relevancy is that somebody who is interested in a particular thing can ask a simple question, type a simple query and then results that show them exactly what they are looking for. If you are interested in only one particular area then the "expert" search engine needs to know about that particular area and have access to all the key information in that area. An expert search engine that is specialized for say, sub-atomic physics, will need to work differently for one specializing in some area of medicine, engineering, tourism or business. Whilst general search engines such as Google are able to index very large amounts of general information, when working in a niche area these general search engines often point the user towards documents of low relevancy.

To achieve high relevancy is critical if a search engine is to become adopted by any group of users. This can only be achieved by developing customized ranking rules that are specific to that area.

Not only does relevancy need to be customized for the particular market niche, the results also need to be comprehensive. When faced with large documents, general search engines have to take short cuts in order to work with massive amounts of information. General search engines will not fully index the entire contents of documents. Instead the focus on information near the start and commonly fail to index what may prove to be essential detail given later in the text. Amco IT Systems Enterprise Search technology provides full indexing on all documents.

Another feature of Amco IT Systems Enterprise Search is the ability to drill down and refine a search within a particular area of interest. This is achieved in two ways. First, the technology allows users to progressively and interactively refine a search whilst showing a progressive "bread crumb" path of how they got to a particular set of results. In addition, the system provides real-time and interactive suggestions that can help direct a user to the key information they require.

No other technology offers such a wide range of features and that is why Amco IT Systems Enterprise Search is now being for some of the most demanding applications in the area of Information Retrieval.

Usability

Having the best technology is not sufficient to gain acceptance by a demanding community of users. New systems will only be adopted if they are both simple and intuitive to use.
Amco IT Systems has worked extensively with user communities from around the world to develop ever better ways to make systems user friendly. The result is to create systems that look at first sight to be very basic and simple. It is only when people start to use them that users appreciate the clever and subtle ways in which the computer programs lead and direct users to the key information they seek.

As with any leading search engine system, some users require very precise control of their searches and this is where the system allows users to switch and focus precisely using an advanced search panel. This panel allows full control including Boolean search as well as searches limited to certain domains or time periods.

Management

One great advantage to having your own search engine is that it provides the search engine owner with complete control over the domain. We provide a comprehensive administrator area that allows all aspects of the system to be supervised and managed.
Control is given for how the various search engine spiders harvest information from different sites. Control also allows these spiders to gain access to private or secure document libraries. These features are important because it is precisely these private and secure areas that often contain the most important and relevant sources of information.

One of the biggest advantages to having your own Enterprise Search Engine is that it allows you to have complete access to all the statistics resulting from the community of users that make use of the system. Not only are you able to see the geographic distribution of your community of users, you are also able to see exactly what they are interested in, how they search, where they search and what they finally end up looking at. This is rather like having your own 24/7 real-time focusing group that gives you continuous feedback about what your users want.

Customization

Amco IT Systems has supplied Enterprise search engines into some of the most demanding areas of industry and commerce. Whilst some of these applications remain private, a few are in the public domain. The largest public application has been for the International Federation of Accountants. IFAC is the trade body for accountants world wide. With over 2.5 million members in over 160 countries, their need is to provide the very best information services to their members.

The application needs to support a wide range of languages. The content is provided in a wide range of languages. This has meant that systems have been developed for both the crawling, indexing and delivery of search results in a wide range of languages. This comprehensive multi-lingual support again pushes the boundaries of what is possible with advanced search technology.

All of this customization allows Amco IT Systems to deliver unique systems that match the exact business needs of clients. It is the combination of precise customization, the use of expert rules and knowledge that combined with a fine attention to detail makes Amco IT Systems Enterprise search the platform of choice for the most exacting niche search applications.

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