The EXTRACT Utility  Do you ever wonder what data is actually stored in your Verity K2 collections? Oh, sure, you probably have a list of the documents which you submitted for indexing; and if you're like a few of the customers we work with, you even analyze your index logs to determine which documents did not successfully index. And you may even know why they didn't index. But seriously: do you know exactly what content you have in all of the fields of your collections? [More].

Filtering User Searches in Ultraseek and K2 Studies show that the average Internet user query is between one and two words in length, which tends to produce many, many results. Some companies have done a better job educating users of their internal search applications, but even within corporations we see short queries as the norm rather than the exception. For example, an HR web site within your company can restrict the scope of searches entered into its search form to content from the HR portion of the site. [More].

Dr. Search: The K2 Spider and rcadmin This month, Dr. Search writes about an easy way to control the K2 spider cache so you can re-index a collection from scratch. Contact Dr. Search at support@ideaeng.com. [More].

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