If it's hard to find information on your company's intranet, you need to add search capability especially if your site changes frequently.

THE BOTTOM LINE: VERY GOOD

"...With Phantom™, Rodriguez said, "In a few hours I had [it] set up and running on some Performa that we had sitting around." Phantom™'s filtering features came in especially handy for the Spanish-language content on Rodriguez's site. "Phantom™ allows us to easily set up a robot so that it only crawls content in Spanish," he said. "I haven't seen other commercial products with this capability."

"Phantom™'s strength," according to Maxum President John O'Fallon, "is its dual capability as a search engine and crawler capable of functioning in a multiserver set up."

While no other commercial product offers Phantom™'s multiserver crawling, each offers special features to meet different Webmasters' needs...

Macworld's buying advice:

Phantom™ (is) a must-have tool for building sophisticated search engines... Powerful feature set; customizing features...

Phantom™ 2 is ideal for providing a search tool for visitors to your site. Besides that obvious application, creative Webmasters will find it useful in monitoring or mirroring external sites.... a capable and usable indexer.

Phantom™ 2.0 is a powerful indexer and search tool, with several new features that make it well suited to large Web sites and complex Web crawling. The Bottom Line: If performing Web crawls or making indexes available to your site's visitors is important and if you have time to create the indexes Phantom™ is worth the price