Finding unstructured information is a growing problem in all organisations and for individuals.  In addition to the enterprise suppliers' search products there are a growing number of web and desktop tools that are freely available to download or use on-line.  In this section we present a selection of the more interesting developments based on our technology watch of the information management market.

SNAP - http://www.snap.com/ 

•  Provides in-line viewing of web pages, selected from the results window, with the ability to interact with the selected web page.
• The search query window anticipates your search as you type.
• Anonymous behaviour analysis based on previous searches.
  

 A9  - http://a9.com/

• Search from Amazon.
• Powered by Windows Live for web search.
• Allows additional search criteria in parallel.   For example:
• Books from Amazon.
• Wikipedia.
• Pubmed.

CLUSTY - http://clusty.com/

•  Federated search using other engines.
•  On-the-fly clustering of results based on textual and linguistic similarity of the pages returned.
  

Microsoft Search Result Clustering (MSRA) Beta - http://rwsm.directtaps.net/

• Uses Microsoft Live search.
• Clusters results based by on-the-fly analysis of page content.
• Supports RSS feeds. 

PHLAT - http://research.microsoft.com/adapt/phlat/default.aspx

• Extension to Windows Desktop Search.
• Allows advanced personal filtering.
• Provides a result tagging capability.
  
  

Windows Live Academic Beta - http://academic.live.com/

• Searches academic journals and indexes.
• Provides an Abstract viewing window with truncated Abstract, if available.
• Does not allow filtering by key subject areas of science (e.g. medicine, engineering, etc).
• Supports OpenURL.
• Supports RSS feeds. 
  

Google Scholar Beta - http://scholar.google.com/

• Searches academic journals and indexes.
• Allows filtering by key subject areas of science (e.g. astronomy, life sciences, etc).
• Classic Goggle results window.
•  No Abstract window.
• Shows citation count.
  

Beagle Desktop Search for Unix/Linux - http://beagle-project.org

•  Searches office documents (incl Microsoft), email, web history, IM/IRC conversations, text, pdf, images, audio.
• Allows users to write simple filters based on external programs and commands.
• Incorporated in the latest Linux distributions.
• Active developer community continue to make improvements.