Create your own Search Engine
- Easy to Install your own Search Engine for local and remote sites...
Easy to install search engine for local and remote sites
Features and Benefits:
- Unrestricted full version download - you can try before you buy.
- Code executes 100% locally on your own server - no dependencies on other sites or companies.
- Code is 100% pure Perl - no dependencies on external modules or system calls.
- No Distracting Banner Ads on Your Search Engine
- Search engine extras are optional. You can use the system with mysql databases -- but you can always use plain file databases as well. You can configure your own keyword-triggered banner ads -- but that's your choice, it's not forced on you.
- Platform indepedence - runs well on Unix, Linux, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Win95/98/ME.
Customize a Search Engine to Fit Your Site Perfectly
- Completely template-based search engines: you control the entire look-and-feel of the site by editing text/html template files. No need to edit the source code... though you can do that too. You can always preserve your existing templates and data when upgrading or re-installing the product.
- Dependable user support, featuring large help files, an active discussion forum, and quick email responses.
- Search code is modular and heavily commented for the benefit of those who want to be hardcore. Can be called as an API from another Perl script. Format of all data files is documented in the help file.
- Highly customizable search filter rules allow you to programmatically control which web pages are included in the index. Filtering can be done based on patterns in the hostname, URL, or Document Text, or based on RASCi and Safesurf PICS headers.
Feel Confident that Your Search Engine is Working at All Times
- Resource-intensive actions, like indexing entire web sites, are spread across multiple CGI executions, using META refreshes. This prevents web server timeouts due to excessive resource usage, and allows the action to recover if some individual CGI executions fail.
- Searches text and HTML files. Can also search PDF files with a free helper application (help file).
Some Great Search Engine Options..
- Add Your URL - any visitor can add her own website to the index, at your option. This can be turned on or off by the script owner.
- Attribute Indexing - a document's text, keywords, description, title, and address are all extracted and used for searching.
- Rich Display - the title, description, size, last modified time, and address of each document are shown to the user in the list of hits. The admin can configure the number of hits to show per page.
- Relevance Listing - documents are sorted by the number of keyword hits, so that the most relevant document appears first. Search terms found in the title, keywords, or description are given additional weight.
- Smart HTML Parsing - the search engine does not index text appearing inside of HTML tags, nor inside SCRIPT or STYLE blocks
Your Installed Search Engine Attributes
Attribute Searching - by default, searches find words in the body, title, keywords, URL, links, or text of a document. By using attribute:value searches, each portion of a document can be searched. The supported attributes are:
- Intended Phrase Optimization - a set of unquoted search terms will be treated as a phrase first, and as individual terms second. Thus, users who don't quote their phrases will still see phrase matches near the top of the results list.
- Punctuation for Phrase Binding - words joined by punctuation will be treated as a phrase. Searching for "Bill.Clinton" (unquoted) is the same as "Bill Clinton" when quoted.
- Punctuation-Insensitve - only alpha-numeric characters can be used for search terms. The characters "+," "|," "-," ":," and "*" all have special meaning (require term, prefer term, forbid term, bind attribute and wildcard match, respectively.) All other punctuation characters are treated as whitespace.
- Case Sensitivity - All searches are case insensitive and accent insensitive. Searching for "Fur" will match the lowercase "fur", uppercase "FUR", and German "für".
- Boolean Operators - Search terms or phrases may be tagged with the Boolean operators "and", "or" and "not."
- Indexing remote files is done with a web crawler. It also operates on fixed batch sizes of documents, preventing infinite loops on robot traps or error conditions. The crawler uses the HTTP/1.0 protocol, but also supports Host headers and dynamic cookies.
- Author Control - those who don't want their pages indexed can protect their site with a robots.txt file or the Robots Meta tag, described in the robots exclusion standard. If their pages have already been indexed, the author can resubmit the pages once robot exclusion is in place, and the pages will automatically be removed.
- When optimal performance is required, the web crawler can run on a computer separate from the one providing search services. All indexing writes to a single, self-contained file that can be transferred from a search workstation up to the search server.
- International Support - all Latin extended characters are reduced to their English equivalents. For example, German "für" becomes "fur". Because this translation is done on the web documents and on the search terms that users enter, the net effect is transparent support for all non-English languages which use the Latin character set. This also enables non-English searching for users with English-only keyboards.
- Auditing - all searches are logged, with the user host, time, search terms, and number of results returned. The script owner can learn about visitor interests by viewing this log.
More Great Customizable Search Options..
- Site Promotion - the script owner can force certain "preferred" web pages or sites to appear higher in the index.
- Site Blacklisting - the script owner can remove certain "blacklisted" web sites from the index. This is useful when the "Add Your URL" feature is turned on for all visitors.
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