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Ariadnet has been launched - a unique free search engine from HNI

Hungary 's first meta-search engine has been released. The user-friendly application was realized with the support of the Széchenyi Plan. It is available for users in a server-side version and a downloadable client-side version at www.ariadnet.hu.

Users from Hungary and abroad can search more effectively on the web. Users can initiate searches for a given word or group of words in the databases of 11 Hungarian and 11 foreign internet search engines simultaneously, or they can specify one by one which systems they want to use. The results are ordered by relevance.

Many interactive functions of Ariadnet make search results even more precise. One can search within titles, URLs, and content of the pages. For finer results, the number of results per search engine can be limited. Age limits can also be set: 3 month, 6 month, one-year-old pages, or all pages can be searched for. Search can also be limited to a particular domain and users can also define the number of hits shown on the result page.

HNI pays special attention to user feedback; user evaluation of the hits is taken into account when computing the order of relevance.

Special logical operators can be used when searching for multiple words. One can define whether either or all expressions must appear on a page, whether the search is for an exact phrase, or one can search for pages that do not contain a certain phrase. Upon registration the client-side version of Ariadnet can be downloaded, search settings can be saved, and results scored.

HNI to develop the first Hungarian meta-search engine

HNI's unique idea has won financial support within the framework of the Széchenyi Plan project of the Secretariat for Informatics of the Prime Minister's Office. Once the free, Hungarian meta-search engine is developed, users can search for a given word or group of words in the databases of several internet search engines simultaneously, getting the results ordered by relevance.

We are about to start a long needed service, since Hungarian websites are currently not searchable with any meta-search engine,” said Dr. Tamás Radnai, president and CEO of HNI. The new service will be available as a server-side service and also as a client-side application. The client-side version will be downloadable by anyone, and the application can be run from the user's own computer. For the server-side version, only a web browser is required. Both versions will be developed in the platform-independent language, Java, used on most operating systems. As with Heuréka and HuDir, we will pay special attention to user feedback. This is essential in improving results.

The application will be totally adapted to the Hungarian language. A word-terminal indicator and a thesaurus will be implemented in the search engine to make results even more precise. The user-friendly, easy-to-personalize, complex application can be extended later with further search engines, automatically updating the existing ones. Search engines of other countries can also be included. The software source code and the final search results will be downloadable.