The complete text in the GulfLINK database of recently
declassified documents is redundantly indexed with 2 different
search engines. Since many of the documents originated as
poor quality scanned images, the choice of search engine may have a
significant affect on the results of your search.
The following search engines are available:
- Texis
- from Thunderstone - EPI Inc.
- Verity
- from Verity, Inc.
Each search engine has unique features and strengths,
summarized in the table below.
means the feature is supported, and
denotes the best implementation
of that feature.
| Search Engine Features
1 |
Texis |
Verity |
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| Fastest search of whole site |
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| Highlight the search terms in document |
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| Group the results by data source
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| Use approximate spellings (soundex) |
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| Use word stems (stemdex) |
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| Use case-sensitive terms (casedex) |
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| Choose proximity of multiple terms |
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| Group the hits over Multiple Pages |
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| Match on synonyms
| |
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| Show original document URL
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| Search WordPerfect documents (DIA)
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| View WordPerfect docs as plain text
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| Search over a selected date range
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| Search only a part of GulfLINK
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| Sort results by relevancy
| 2 |
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| Choose the fields shown in results
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| Use boolean logic for multiple terms
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| Match on word stem
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| Choose max number of hits
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| Refine Search from results
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