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Web Feat, a provider of federated search has launched a new product Web Feet Express International. Among the languages supported by the service are English, French, German, Korean, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Japanese and Spanish (Latin American and Spain).

Here is a brief summary of the new features:

*smooth change of languages displayed on both search interface and administrative interface
*easy configuration of database menus, subject guides,
*catalog configuration, authentication, and user interface configuration
*Unicode compliant

With federated search you can do one search simultaneously across multiple databases and get integrated results. All the customized search engines like Rollyo, Google Custom Search Engine, Watson are using the same principle of federated search.

Via: Library Technology Guides

http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displayarticle.pl?RC=12257