Zoom Search Engine 6.0 Build 1016

Zoom Search Engine is a package for web developers to add an industrial-strength custom search engine to their website in a matter of minutes. No complicated server-side setup procedures are needed, you simply index and upload from the convenience of your own PC.

Version 6 now available! V6 is the most powerful version of Zoom yet. Featuring improved search accuracy, up to 60% faster exact phrase searches, increased capacity, greater customizability, a new user interface, and sophisticated search options that suit complex sites from e-commerce shops to web communities. This is the most powerful version of Zoom yet.

Zoom is a software package that creates a search engine for your website, intranet, CD, or DVD. It provides fast and powerful full-text searching by indexing your website in advance with an user friendly desktop application that allows you to configure and index your site, from the convenience of your Windows computer.

• Easy to use and install, up and running in minutes
• No advertising and no annual fees (Free for small sites!)
• No scripting knowledge or editing required
• No complicated database setup procedure
• No external web service required
• Highly configurable
• Search static and dynamic web pages (.HTML, .PHP, .ASP, .CF, etc.)
• Search PDF, DOC, PPT, XLS, SWF, JPG, GIF, and many other file types#
• Runs on almost all web servers and hosting plans
• PHP, Classic ASP, ASP.NET, Javascript, and CGI support in one package
• PHP supportedClassic ASP supportedASP.NET supportedJavaScript supportedCGI (C/C++ binary) supported

Feature packed search solution

• Search images and display thumbnails in search results with Zoom 5.0Despite its ease of use, Zoom is one of the most feature packed solutions on the market. It offers search results sorted by relevance or date, wildcard searching, exact phrase matching*, "Google-like" context results*, highlighting, spelling suggestions, synonyms, graphical statistic reports, international language support, incremental indexing, images and thumbnails, content filtering, XML/RSS OpenSearch output and more.
• New V6 features include a new Search Ranking Algorithm and Stemming options to provide more accurate results than previously possible, native ASP.NET server control, plugins for indexing Office 2007 documents and ZIP files, improved Vista support, and the powerful Custom Meta Fields feature for database-like search criterias.

Essential web admin tools included: Besides helping your visitors find what they're looking for, Zoom also provides features which are crucial to every web site administrator such as Broken Link Detection, and Google™ and Yahoo™ Sitemap Generator.

Major Features:

1. Search results sorted by relevance or by date
2. Wildcard searching (eg. "zo?m", "*zoom*")
3. Exact phrase searching*
4. "Google-like" context search results*
5. Highlight words found in search results
6. Provide spelling suggestions* and synonyms
7. Exclusion/negative searches
8. V6 Search Ranking Algorithm and Stemming*
9. Display images or thumbnails alongside search results (more)
10. Provide recommended links for certain keywords or phrases (more)
11. Perform database-like multi-criteria searches using Custom Meta Fields.
12. Capable of serving up to 300 queries per minute
13. Can index and search 1000s of web site domains in a single index#
14. Search inside DOC, PDF, PPT, XLS, RTF, and WPD files (see plugins#).
15. Search a Flash-based site. Index SWF and FlashPaper files (see plugin#).
16. A9 and OpenSearch compatible XML/RSS output (CGI only)
17. Log all searches made on your website and generate detailed pie-charts and graphical statistic reports* so you know what your visitors are looking for
18. Completely customizable search page appearance with HTML and CSS templates
19. International language support (various charset support, UTF-8, accent, diacritic and ligature options, translated search pages and more)

Enhancements:

• Added Slovak language file.
• Updated German language file.
• Added "FlyingAnt Server" CGI output option.
• Fixed CGI bug with no results returned (or "search is too common" message) when both "Show time taken..." option and Search Logging are disabled.
• Fixed bug in PHP script causing "Uninitialized string offset" notice errors.
• Changes to ASP script to prevent conflict with "image" variable names when it is included in another ASP script.
• Fixed bugs with configuration change prompts appearing when running as scheduled task (or from the command line)
• Added ".ppsx" as recognized extension for "Office 2007 file" support.
• Fixed bug with not exporting FOLLOW_ALL start point option.
• You can now enable/disable logging modes (e.g. debug logging) immediately prior to incremental indexing.
• Fixed crash bug when performing incremental indexing and more than 2 GB of memory is utilized (64-bit only).
• Fixed bug with incremental indexing not proceeding due to the stemmed synonym entries overlapping.

Requirements:

• For indexing your website, you will require a computer with
• • Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, or Server 2008
  • Internet Explorer 5.5 or later
  • 64 megs of memory (more memory is required to index larger sites)
  • At least 30 megabytes of available disk space
• For searching on your online web site or CD-ROM,
• • Your requirements will depend on the scripting platform of your choice. You will need either one of the following:
  • Web server with PHP (4.2 or higher) installed (see PHP option) OR
  • Web server with ASP 3.0 or higher and VBScript 5.5+ installed (see ASP option) OR
  • Web server with ASP.NET support (and hosting permission to install server control - see ASP.NET option)
  • Web server with CGI executable permissions (CGI option) OR
  • A web browser with JavaScript 1.5 or higher support (Javascript option)