Inxight develops “Thing Finder”

Thing Finder Server from Inxight allows users to search for specific information on the Web or a corporate portal. It identifies the role of each word within a document and then indexes and highlights key entities, such as places or names. Users can then obtain additional information about the highlighted entities. The pop-up box is powered with Active Annotation, new Inxight technology that compiles the links for the relevant information and allows users to interact with the data within the pop-up box.

A drop-in server engine, Thing Finder Server runs on Web servers such as Microsoft Internet Information Server and Apache, and supports Java Beans, Active X, ASP and JSP formats. Because the product supports standard tools and protocols that Webmasters work with, knowledge of C++ and other programming languages is not necessary to get Thing Finder Server up and running. Webmasters will find the engine quick and easy to implement with virtually any application that processes textual information.

Thing Finder Server comes with 20 pre-defined categories, but Webmasters can also and customize it to recognize industry-specific terms. For example, a pharmaceutical company could add specific drug terms and diseases as search categories and train Thing Finder Server to look for those specific items.