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About Siebel Search

Siebel Search is a text-retrieval tool that allows users of Oracle's Siebel Business Applications to perform full-text searches across Siebel records and files found inside and outside the Siebel application structure. Personalized visibility rules can be applied to search results so users view only search results to which they have been given access. Documents and database records found by the search can be previewed in the browser, or launched in the native application.

NOTE:  Siebel Search employs Hummingbird SearchServer and related components. A license to Hummingbird products is included with every license of Siebel Search. Hummingbird Search Indices, used by Siebel Search, cannot be used by another vendor's search engine. Additionally, Hummingbird Search Indices can only be used by the Siebel application, because the Hummingbird software licensed with Siebel Search does not allow external use.

Certain Hummingbird products (Hummingbird SearchServer) are included in the Siebel Search product. Siebel Business Applications use license key numbers to allow your organization to access the products you have licensed. Oracle provides license keys only for the software programs and documentation for which you have acquired a license, as set forth in your company's license agreement with Oracle. Software programs and documentation are Siebel Confidential Information, and must be treated as such in accordance with applicable terms of your company's license agreement with Siebel. The license keys for Hummingbird in this guide have been generated for you. Your company's license agreement with Oracle sets forth the permitted uses of these license keys, which include, but are not limited to requiring that you use these license keys only in combination with Siebel Programs and not on a stand alone basis.

Siebel Search is included with every license for Siebel Business Applications. Siebel Advanced Search, a separately licensed product, includes and expands the basic Boolean capabilities of Siebel Search, allowing customers to deploy natural language search capabilities like synonym, term proximity control, and word stemming, as well as automatic spell checking and the user-defined thesaurus. For information on the differences between Siebel Search and Siebel Advanced Search, see the following:

• About Basic Search Retrieval Techniques
• Advanced Search Retrieval Techniques