FAROO 2.0.3319.24881

FAROO 2.0.3319.24881 offers an effective tool which helps you to implement web search based on Peer-to-peer technology. After the program is downloaded and installed, the searcher becomes part of a world wide distributed search engine.

Every web page visited is automatically included in the index of the search engine.
The ranking of search results is based on a distributed usage statistics of the web pages visited by FAROO users.

Major Features:

1. Peer-to-peer web search
   • Boolean search: supports the Boolean operators AND (+), OR (|), NOT (-); Parentheses supported.
   • Phrases ("") and NEAR-Operator (within a radius of 10 words) supported.
   • PeerRank-Ranking: better search results through user centered ranking.
   • Search spam filter provides more relevant results.
   • Search independent from diacrytics, umlaut and capitalization.
   • Stemming: better search results through reduction of search term to its stem.
   • Display of Favicons in results.
   • Display historical versions of a web page by linking to the Internet Archive.
2. Result display
   • Summarization of text with Keyword in Context (KWIC).
   • Keyword highlighting: Search terms are highlighted within the search results.
3. Desktop search
   • Full text search: FAROO is searching within file names as well as in full text of documents.
   • Instant search: FAROO starts the search immediately after the user begins to type the search term.
   • Supports many document formats: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, HTML, Text, ZIP. Extendible with Microsoft IFilter.
   • Indexation of network drives.
   • Separated local indexes for each Windows user.
   • Incremental indexation through Windows Change Notification.
   • Low resource overhead through monitoring of processor load and user activity.
4. Full control
   • Exclusion of directories or file types from indexation.
   • Specification of location and maximum memory for index.
5. User interface
   • Browser based user interface
   • Layout XSL based: Style of search page and result page customizable.
   • Style may be specified as url parameter: Easy integration into other applications, web pages and easy adoption to different output channels as e.g. mobile, PDA, rss-feeds etc.
   • Support of all character sets (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Cyrillic).
6. Desktop Integration
   • Integration of web search and desktop search.
   • Searches may be saved as Favorites.
   • Integration in Firefox Search Box, IE7 Search Box and IE Search Pane.
   • Simple link integration possible.
   • Start of search also via www.faroo.com (if client is active).
   • Program start also via url protocol handler faroo:// (e.g. for IE search panel).
7. Simple installation
   • Runs on Windows XP and Vista with installed Microsoft Net Framework.
   • Support of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Safari.
   • Uses HTTP and Port 80: Search also within near all corporate networks despite proxy, router and firewall available.
   • Automatic port forwarding of the router with Universal Plug and Play (UPnP).

Requirements: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or above