IBM extends OmniFind Yahoo! Edition to non-English speaking countries

April 20, 2007: IBM has released OmniFind Yahoo! Edition enterprise search software for over a dozen languages. These include Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese (for China and Singapore), Traditional Chinese (for Taiwan), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese and Swedish.

The new version of OmniFind Yahoo! Edition was developed to address growing global customer demand for search software. IBM has used a free-ware entry-level release strategy, hoping to trigger sales to enterprise customers. IBM is claiming that over 16,000 users have downloaded the free edition.

According to IBM the free software marketing strategy has worked, generating interest in IBM's enterprise-class OmniFind search products.

"The new OmniFind Yahoo! Edition product has not only made enterprise search ubiquitous and free, it has changed the competitive dynamics of the search market," said Aaron Brown, program director, Content Discovery and Search, IBM.

OmniFind Yahoo! Edition allows users to build new custom search applications or add customized content beyond Web pages and office documents. It also includes metadata search to refine results or create more targeted searches on top of initial search results.

IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition uses the open source Lucene indexing library, allowing users to develop new applications based on the technology, including enterprise search running on a flash thumb drive, integrating enterprise search with instant messaging applications, and using search to enhance existing software applications.

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