Zoom Search Engine 4 Released
8/Feb/2005
Wrensoft,
(a subsidiary of PassMark™ software), releases Zoom Search Engine
V4, a new entrant in the enterprise search market
Wrensoft has released Zoom Search Engine 4.0, a software package that allows enterprises to add a custom search engine to their website. Unlike other solutions, there are no complicated server setup procedures - just install the software on a Windows PC, index your site and upload the resulting index files and search script. You can have a powerful search engine on your website in a matter of minutes.
Zoom makes web site instantly more accessible, and helps visitors find what they are looking for without getting lost or frustrated. Zoom will keep your visitors on your site, and can even let you learn more about what they are looking for. It is a must for any web developer that values the content on their site, and their audience.
You can use Zoom to create a search engine for your website, local Intranet or even for CD-ROM, and offline distributions. It is a self-contained solution and does not depend on any external web services, so you are guaranteed to have complete control over the look and feel. There are no banners or advertisements, and with the use of HTML and CSS templates, you can customize the appearance of the search page without any scripting knowledge. Zoom can also run on a variety of server platforms (or without a server at all), and is compatible with all standard hosting packages, making it one of the most flexible solutions on the market today.
Zoom can index over 100,000 documents and satisfy up to 200 search requests per minute. It provides searching capabilities that include: results ranked by relevance, wildcard and exact phrase matching, "Google-like" context descriptions (results that show where the keywords are found on a page), results highlighting, Boolean "AND/OR", category searching, and more. This is coupled with highly configurable indexing options such as: spider and offline indexing modes, stop words and skip pages, multiple domains support, word weighting options, and support for common file formats such as Acrobat (PDF), Word (DOC), Excel (XLS) and PowerPoint (PPT) files.
The advanced features of Zoom allow you to log the searches made on your website, and analyze them with generated statistical reports, providing pie-charts on the Top 10 searches, and graphs of the number of searches per day, week, or month. These reports are generated as HTML web pages so they can be put online, used in presentations or filed away for your own analysis and records.
Zoom indexes on any Windows installed computer to create an index of your entire web site. For the online search interface, Zoom can run on any web server with PHP or ASP support. For sites where this is not possible (or for CD-ROM and offline searching), a JavaScript option is available which can run in any current browser.
Zoom Search Engine 4.0 is available for free for small websites (up to a 50 page limit), Standard Edition ($49 USD) and Professional Edition ($99 USD), which support larger websites and more file formats. For more information, visit http://www.wrensoft.com