FAROO 2.0.3340.21763

FAROO 2.0.3340.21763 is a program which implements 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.

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.
  

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

WareSeeker Editor