We recently deployed Ontolica into a MOSS environment that already had a heavily customised MOSS search configuration. The environment makes heavy use of property based searches in the form of [managedproperty]:[searchterm].
After creating a new search centre and replicating all our existing search functionality in the Ontolica web parts we ran into a problem.
When using the property search syntax in Ontolica we get no results with the message “Searching the property [managedproperty] is not supported in the Wildcard edition of Ontolica”.
Using Ontolica Wildcard actually REMOVES standard MOSS search functionality.
I think Ontolica wildcard is a great product and its fantastic that they have made this component completely free. At a loss here as it basically removes 95% of the situations where we would employ the product.
I sent an email to the support team and they confirmed that this was the case:
"The wildcard license does generally not support the displaying of custom properties in search results"