June 30, 2005 Public Web Site Search Project Update: 6/30/2005 Linda Busdiecker & Andy Nguyen Department of Information Technology

June 30, 2005 The Problem The current search is inadequate The relevancy given to results is generally not useful Out of the box, the current search engine does not allow us to equate terms (e.g. “IT Plan” = “Information Technology Plan”) 2

June 30, 2005 The Solution Verity K2 Enterprise Search Engine More resemblance to Google Custom ASP.NET interface –Browser –Web Service Future integration with Web Content Management 3

June 30, 2005 Verity K2 Enterprise Search Engine Allows us to specify the relevancy algorithm Searches against multiple repositories Features a customizable thesaurus Provides dynamic renditioning of Office and PDF documents to HTML Provides the ability to use taxonomies 4

June 30, 2005 More Resemblance to Google Search term emboldened in results 200 document limit removed “View as HTML” for PDF and Office documents Improved pagination navigation Additional properties for results: –Full URL –File size –Organization link 5

June 30, 2005 Custom ASP.NET Application Browser interface –Fairfax County look and feel –Allows users to sort results –Displays a relevancy ranking for each document Web service –Allows search functionality to be accessed programmatically –Enables reusability 6

June 30, 2005 Home Page 7

June 30, 2005 Simple Search Results 8

June 30, 2005 Combination Search 9

June 30, 2005 Site Taxonomy Search 10

June 30, 2005 Site Taxonomy Results 11

June 30, 2005 Organization Search 12

June 30, 2005 Organization Results 13

June 30, 2005 Search Tips 14

June 30, 2005 Future Integration with Web Content Management The search engine will index both the Web site and a database populated by Web Content Management. Web Content Management will allow content owners to easily update page metadata, ensuring more accurate search results. 15

June 30, 2005 Potential Future Enhancements Provide a search by the type of document (e.g., news releases, minutes, reports, etc) Provide searches by additional taxonomies Provide search assistance for the user (e.g., “Did you mean …”) 16