FindinSite-MS 1.63

FindinSite-MS 1.63 comes as an versatile and useful search engine for a MS hosted web site - easily configurable to look like part of your web site, index when you want and highlight result pages. FindinSite-MS is an ASP.NET application that runs in IIS on a Windows server, including shared hosts. A Search API XML Web service is available. The FindinSite-MS Control Panel makes it easy to set up regular indexing runs and output template files.

Major Features

1. Search engine:
   • A full-text search engine for your site:
   • Enter text into a search form
   • Findinsite-ms displays a results list
   • Click to show a result, with word highlighting in web pages
2. Servers: ASP.NET 2 application
   • For web sites and Intranets using Microsoft servers
   • Works on shared hosts
3. Highlighting: Shows highlighted excerpts from files in the results list
   • Highlights found search words in displayed web pages
   • Jumps straight to first occurrence on web page
4. Indexing: Schedule regular indexing runs
   • Email of indexing results
   • Many file types: HTML, PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, PUB, TXT, JPEG/TIFF
5. Languages: findinsite-ms output generated in user's preferred language
   • Currently, 29 Western and Asian languages are supported, including most European Union languages
6. Search features: Logical searches AND OR NOT ( )
   • Full wild card support
   • Word stemming and synonyms
   • Searches multiple web sites - choose which to search
   • Meta-data field searches
7. Easily configured: Browser-based control panel
   • Full control of indexing features
   • General, Searching, Look and Feel, Indexing, About and Log sections
8. Output format: HTML template files for the results list elements
   • Heading, Top, Line, Bottom, Footer and Error Display templates
   • Adjustable number of hits per results page
   • ASPX included files can use findinsite-ms form variables
9. Search API:
   
   • Programmer interface - XML web service
   • Customise, filter or rearrange the results list
10. Speed
    
    • Search database held in memory
    • Thread safe searches
11. Site size
    • Shared hosts: 3,000-10,000 files typical maximum
    • Dedicated hosts: 40,000-60,000 files typical maximum

Enhancements:

• Indexing: PDF 1.5 format finally supported: cross reference streams and object streams
• Indexing: PDF Flate DecodeParms Predictor 12/Up supported
• Indexing: PDF rr line ends recognised
• Indexing: Content-Type HTTP header used to override file type
• Indexing: Use moved location of initial URL, eg follow "findinsite" to "findinsite/"
• Indexing: Use "Content-Location" to reduce duplicate URLs indexed, eg "findinsite/" is the same as "findinsite/default.htm"
• Indexing: Rules added
• Highlighting: base tag and (changed) header added at better position in web page
• Indexing email: server port added
• Search: Load database files more efficiently
• Templates: Consistently use %SEARCH_TEXT%, though %SEARCHTEXT% still supported
• Output and templates: updated to use better XHTML
• Output: default target supported

Requirements:

• Platform:
• • Runs in IIS 6 in Windows Server 2003
  • Runs in IIS 5 in Windows XP Professional
  • Runs in IIS 7 in Windows Vista
  • Uses flat files - no database needed
  • Uses the .NET framework 2.0
  • ASP.NET 1.1 version also available
• File types:
  
• • HTML web pages, including ASP, ASPX etc -
  • Supports 32 web page character sets, including multi-byte non-Western charsets
  • Adobe PDF
  • Word DOC and DOCX
  • Excel XLS and XLSX
  • PowerPoint PPT/PPS/PPTX presentation
  • Publisher PUB
  • TXT plain text
  • JPEG and TIFF image meta-data
  • No application programs are needed!
  • Not all file format variants supported
  • FindexApp console .NET application indexer also available
  • FindinSite.TextExtractor .NET text and word parser class library DLL available separately
• Installation:
  
• • XCOPY installation, ie copy directory to server
  • Mark directory as an Application
  • ASPNET and Anonymous file write permission needed
  • Works on ISP shared host web sites
  • Dedicated hosting may be required for larger sites
• Search API:
• •  ASP.NET XML web service with WSDL definition
  • fisClient Search API helper DLL for .NET