2006 2006 development status active written in c perl type search engine license gpl v2 license website www.searchdaimon.com searchdaimon es enterprise search is an open source enterprise search engine for full text search of structured and unstructured data available under the gpl v2 license . its major features include hit highlighting faceted search dynamic clustering database integration rich document e.g. word pdf handling and full document level security . first developed by norwegian software company searchdaimon as as a commercial solution the company shifted to an open source development model in 2013 with the company offering commercial support and other services . 1 the company has its headquarters in oslo and a research department in trondheim . 2 contents 1 enterprise search technology 2 history 3 references 4 external links enterprise search technology edit the technology has primarily been used for searching companies internal data sources but has also been used in an internet search engine . 3 searchdaimon es can be delivered both as software as a virtual or physical server 4 and as a cloud computing service at amazon web services . 5 features crawl http databases windows file shares exchange sharepoint and local files 6 extract data from many common document formats like microsoft word excel rtf powerpoint and adobe acrobat pdf creates thumbnails for many common image formats like png jpeg and tif support full document level security and integration with active directory 7 html administration interface 8 history edit the two founders runar buvik and magnus gal en started to develop a search engine in 1998 while they were studying computer science at the norwegian university of science and technology . the first version became publicly available in 2003 . 9 in 2005 searchdaimon as was founded as a company to commercialize the technology . early investors were springfondet a joint venture by kistefos and oslo innovation center 10 11 and ict group as . searchdaimon es the company s product for enterprise search was released in 2006 . 12 in 2008 the company signed its first contract to delivering internet search technology to a third party . 13 in 2011 the company licensed a free version of searchdaimon es . 14 8 july 2013 searchdaimon have been released as open source under the gpl v2 license . 15 references edit beyond search searchdaimon goes open source searchdaimon.com about us http www.digi.no 505126 norsk soketeknologi til amerikansk sokegigant serverwatch.com 7 enterprise search appliances that can save the day amazon.com searchdaimon enterprise search 2.6 searchdaimon.com fact sheet searchdaimon.com enterprise search functions searchdaimon.com administration of es digi.no lanserer konkurrent til fast kistefos inn i s k til 5 millioner pdf . finansavisen . 14 august 2006 . s ker kunder pdf . finansavisen . 25 june 2007 . searchdaimon.com enterprise search first release digi.no norsk s keteknologi til amerikansk s kegigant searchdaimon.com launching a free enterprise search appliance searchdaimon enterprise search is now free and open source on github external links edit official website public source code repository norwegian search technology to american search giant selling search for 4 5 millions new norwegian search engine gets additional million retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title searchdaimon & oldid 605275488 categories computer companies of norwaycompanies established in 2005companies based in oslosoftware companies of norwayhidden categories articles which use infobox templates with no data rows navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages norsk bokm l edit links this page was last modified on 22 april 2014 at 10 15 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view