Private company

Concept Searching Limited

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Software company in United Kingdom

Concept Searching Limited was a software company that specialized in information retrieval software. It created products for enterprise search, taxonomy management, and statistical classification.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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Concept Searching Limited was a software company that specialized in information retrieval software. It created products for enterprise search, taxonomy management, and statistical classification.2

The story

Concept Searching was founded in 2002 in the UK with offices in the USA and South Africa. In August 2003, the company introduced the idea of using compound term processing.

The company's products ran on the Microsoft.NET platform. The products integrated with Microsoft SharePoint and many other platforms.

Concept Searching developed the Smart Content Framework, a toolset that provides an enterprise framework to mitigate risk, automate processes, manage information, protect privacy, and address compliance issues. The Smart Content Framework was used by many large organizations including 23,000 users at the NASA Safety Center.

Concept Searching was acquired by Netwrix on 28 November 2018.

From Wikipedia’s article on Concept Searching Limited, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

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