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New Search Capability in Oracle MetaLink

July 13, 2006 on 9:20 pm | by Marian Crkon | In Oracle Press | Enter Comments |  Print |  Email

Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES) is now available on MetaLink. SES allows you to search from within MetaLink in other non-MetaLink content areas, such as Oracle Product Documentation, Oracle Technology Network (OTN) and oracle.com content. Look for additional repositories to be added in coming months.

Simply click on the “Secure Enterprise Search” link just to the right of the “Quick Find Go” button on MetaLink (Metalink login is required) or, under the “Knowledge” tab, click on the “Secure Enterprise Search” link on the dark blue bar immediately below it. Either link will display the Secure Enterprise Search page in a new window. Please note that, since SES does open in a separate window, any pop-up blockers that you have turned on may prevent the SES search screen from displaying.

Key Features of Oracle Secure Enterprise Search

Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, a standalone product from Oracle, enables a secure, high quality, easy-to-use search across all enterprise information assets. Key features include:

• The ability to search and locate public, private and shared content across Intranet Web servers, databases, files on local disk or on file servers, IMAP e-mail, document management systems, applications and portals
• Highly secure crawling, indexing and searching
• A simple, intuitive search interface leading to an excellent user experience
• Excellent search quality, with the most relevant items for a query shown first, even when the query spans diverse public or private data sources
• Analytics on search results and understanding of usage patterns
• Sub-second query performance
• Ease of administration and maintenance leveraging your existing IT expertise

Click on the “Help” link in the upper right hand corner of the SES screen for additional detailed instructions for refining and filtering your search (inclusion and exclusion keys, wildcard matching, etc.), and also how to use the advanced search capability in SES.

For more information on using SES, please see the News & Notes entry “Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES) Now Available on MetaLink” posted in MetaLink Headlines on June 30, 2006.