Portfolio references
Siets search engine technology was used for web-scale and smaller-scale search driven data collection, aggregation and search projects:
Latvian National Web Search Portal
SIETS data storage and search engine technology was being used by Lursoft in country-wide Internet search portal www.siets.lv which became of the most popular visited web location of Latvian Internet users in 2003-2005.
Siets.lv was built as a national Internet search portal and was maintained by Lursoft from 2002 until 2007.
The Siets.net global Internet web crawler was developed to collect and index daily more than 3 million Web pages and documents from the Latvian Internet domains *.lv and from worldwide web other .com, .org etc domains containing content in Latvian language.
This web search portal provided remarkable search functionality and results relevance compared to the leading Internet search engine, since it covered about double number of web pages in its index, was enriched with none-public data from business registers, media news archives etc, and it was providing more relevant results in Latvian language.
Funnel - national internet search engine of South Africa
A company from South Africa Funnel was interested to establish similar nation-wide Internet search engine in this African country. Scalable state-of-the-art Siets.net Internet crawler software and Siets engineering team's know-how did help to establish complete high-volume operational platform Funnel.co.za similar to that of Siets.lv in South Africa.
The company was indexing all South African Internet for search (about 2 million web pages in 2003), using a cluster of Siets.net crawler and search software as a back-end search engine infrastructure.
The search portal was eventually sold by company owners to A.C. Braby Pty, the most popular business directory vendor in South Africa (see BRABYS). Search service portal was eventually incorporated into other advertising properties of Brabis business.
www.mypages.com
USA Business Directory Company for Local Search Services
More than 18 million business directory profiles from all major United States cities and regions. Siets software based search application was developed by MyPages.com, L. L. C, that uses Siets built-in sorting by geospatial coordinates of businesses (latitude and longitude) to return all relevant matches to user queries, sorted by the closest distance.
www.newsisfree.com
World's News Aggregator Portal From Switzerland
A Switzerland based company owned web site providing access to more than 20,000 thousands of news sources and channels, ranging from high profile news sources, to very specific topic sites, to weblogs. Sources were gathered either from their syndication feed or by analyzing the actual web pages. Siets software was used as portal's search engine handling more than 5 million news headlines daily.
The Leading Business Information Online Service in Latvia
Legal and financial data on all Latvian businesses - complete official information on more than 170 000 registered companies and organizations. This national company register database was created in 1992 by Lursoft.
Company financial reports and annual accounts, management data, ownership data, pledges and many more data is available from Lursoft for registered subscribers.
Lursoft subscription service was using free web-style search using Siets search engine technology platform, applied across more than 60 registers and databases, aggregated from different government sources by Lursoft, and provided for online subscription users on the Internet.
In 2020 Lursoft is still the leading Deep Web information provider in Latvia, with runner up Firmas.lv as the second business information provider using Siets.net technology.
Latvian Press and Newspaper Library Portal
The largest national database of full text articles of newspapers and periodicals. It contains more than 6 million publications since 1993 from more than 100 sources aggregated daily. The library is growing by about 10 000 publications monthly and its search index is updated in real-time.
www.giko.se
Giko Outsourcing (Kingdom of Sweden)
Swedish contractor for low-cost outsourcing to the public administration and government. The company was operating the document management and public portal system on employment laws and benefits using Siets.net technology.
The Central Bank of Latvia
Siets search technology was used to provide outsourced search services for the highly visited Central Bank of Latvia public search portal. This web site is providing currency rates and other essential financial information as a trusted source for local financial market and economy.
Apollo Daily News Portal
Siets.net was running search services for the one of the largest and most visited Latvian portals and news sites on Apollo.lv.
This general news and entertainment web portal was set up and operated by the national incumbent telecommunications operator and ICT giant Lattelecom (today renamed to - TET).
Latvian National Library and other libraries
Catalog of Latvian National Library used Siets.net technology to publish links to library records on all recently published books. Also books references are published for search from the State Archive Library and Jelgava Scientific Library.
The largest national daily newspaper
Diena was using search services based on Siets.lv technology to access the full text article database and to enhance search services for their portal visitors with an Internet search option.
Folk Song Cabinet - UNESCO Heritage
This is one of the most interesting applications of Siets search engine technology. It brings full text search capabilities to the electronic collection of more than 3 million Latvian folk song cabinet texts and images that has a great cultural value, honored by the UNESCO as the World Heritage in Latvia.
The full-text search together with advanced search options offer assistance for the daily work of scientists, philology specialists and other cultural heritage researchers. Siets engineering team also cracked the challenge how to search in old texts (so called 'old print') using charsets not available anymore in the contemporary Latvian language.
Dainuskapis.lv is also a very popular portal for everyday users looking for national texts of greetings, education or simply entertainment.
www.tournet.lv
Tourism information aggregator in Latvia
One of the leading sites of popular tourism information in Latvia, includes guides and articles, all instantly searchable by Siets software
The Largest Sports News Portal in Latvia
The latest and most popular information and news aggregator on Latvian sports life. Lursoft was providing hosted search services for the E-sports.lv portal using Siets search engine technology.
National Cinematography Center
News, information and other entertainment data on Latvian movies, cinematography, actors etc. Instantly search and any movie or actor by name or known context using Siets technology.
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