FindinSite-MS

ASP.NET Search Engine for a MS hosted site: application & Search API web service

FindinSite-MS  Review

FindinSite-MS is a 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 Microsoft-based hosts - .NET framework 2.0 or later. A Search API XML web service is available for complete programmer control. Powerful search facilities are available, including booleans and wildcards, word stemming and synonyms, subsets and meta-data field searches. The FindinSite-MS user interface adapts to the user's preferred locale - great international support: 15 Western, Arabic and Asian languages are currently supported. FindinSite-MS searches many file types, including HTML, PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, PUB, TXT, JPEG and TIFF files. FindinSite-MS Control Panel makes it easy to set up regular indexing runs to spider through all the files on your site. The generated output is configured using template files - optionally incorporating output generated dynamically from ASPX pages. Search subsets can be set up to search many sites. The Search API is provided as an XML web service. As a programmer, this can be used to do searches and then process the results as you wish. Installation is by creating a new directory on your site, marked as an application. FindinSite-MS needs file write permission to store its configuration information.