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Recommind Enhances MindServer With Deep Federated Search Framework

The MindServer 5.1 release expands Recommind’s enterprise search functionality in several ways, most notably in the deep federated search capabilities that allow users to search multiple internal and external systems from a single, tightly integrated search interface. In addition to finding information from within an enterprise’s myriad applications, databases, file servers, and other repositories, MindServer 5.1 delivers external results to a single UI via out-of-the-box integrations with a number of online publishers as well as public sources such as EDGAR Online, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Association of Corporate Counsel, U.K. government departments, the European Union, London Stock Exchange, Wikipedia, Google, the BBC, and many others. Robust search management controls support restrictions across secure content, enabling only users with specific access rights to perform searches on certain external content (e.g., on password-protected subscription sites or pay per search sites).

To give users greater navigability of content, MindServer 5.1 provides automatic phrase extraction functionality, which identifies relevant phrases within indexed content and provides smart-filtering capabilities to narrow results based on such phrases. MindServer 5.1’s incremental crawl functionality allows particularly time-sensitive information to be quickly and automatically updated within a user’s query results. MindServer 5.1 also extends information navigation to email attachments and archived content (e.g., in an email archive). MindServer 5.1’s Quick View feature brings the user directly to the relevant individual attachment and allows the user to navigate back through the entire email thread from the relevant section.