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.

Here are some key features of "Zoom Search Engine":

· Easy to use and user friendly indexer application which runs from your very desktop (or Windows based web server) and allows you to configure all elements of the search engine.
· Spider indexing mode allows websites hosted on a web server to be scanned remotely, and index both dynamically generated web sites as well as static content. Supports multi-threading for super fast spider crawling.
· Offline indexing mode available for indexing local web pages, with only static content for speed and convenience.
· Plugin support for indexing a variety of file formats (such as DOC, PDF, XLS, PPT, SWF, and lots more)
· Powerful search syntax allowing for wildcard matches (eg. "zo?m", "*zoom*"), exclusion/negative searches, Boolean AND/OR, and more.
· "Google-like" context search results shows the matched word and its surrounding context.
· Highlight words found in search results.
· Sort search results by date or relevance.
· Provide users with spelling suggestions when few results are found.
· You can specify synonyms, variations of words, common misspellings, etc. and allow you to map them to an equivalent word in the index.
· Weighting and boosting options allow you to increase or decrease the importance of text (found in headings, or titles, etc.) and particular pages, giving you greater control over which page gets higher priority in the search results.
· Flexible indexing options allow you to select exactly what you want to index, from title of page, page content, to Meta author, and filename.
· Customizable search page appearance with HTML and CSS templates.
· Categories option allows you to group files together, and provide a drop-down or checkbox of categories to restrict your searches to.
· Authentication support for indexing secure websites in spider mode
· Log user searches performed on your website and analyse the statistics with our Search Statistics Report tool.
· Built-in FTP uploading: Zoom can upload your search files to the web server for you.
· Built-in scheduling: Schedule Zoom to automatically index or generate reports for your site.
· International language support (various charset support, Unicode/UTF-8, accent/diacritic options, localized search pages, translatable output, and more)
· Advanced HTML document parsing, indexing only the content to your website and avoiding various scripting code from being mixed up with the text of the document.
· Prevent indexing pages with identical content with CRC signatures.
· Supports cookies and cache used by Windows and Internet Explorer.
· Supports HTML character entities and numeric entities.
· Configuration files allow you to manage multiple search engines with ease.

Requirements:

· Internet Explorer 5.5 or later
· 64 megs of memory (more memory is required to index larger sites)
· At least 3 megabytes of available disk space

Limitations:

· Can only scan up to 50 pages

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Fixed crash bug in CGI when highlighting with all wildcard query.
· Fixed bug with miscounted category summary in CGI/ASP.NET when a query returns a large set of results.
· Fixed minor bug with ASP template parsing.
· Fixed bug with incremental command line option "-addpages" not working.
· Renamed "ALT text for images" option to "ALT text for image links" (for clarity).
· Fixed bug with escaped characters in filename when a base URL is set to an offline file path.
· Improved automatic form login to handle large HTTP post parameters (e.g. VIEWSTATE buffers used on some ASP.NET websites). This is now defined by the "Max file size" limit specified under "Configure"->"Limits".
· Fixed memory leaks in automatic form login process.