SearchBlox 6.1 User Guide (PDF) Download

End-User Features

  • Seamlessly search across Emails, RSS and Atom Web Feeds, HTTP(S), Filesystem and custom content
  • Automatically group search results into clusters (clustered search) for fast access to the right information
  • Advanced Search – Search by file format, language, keyword occurrence and modified date
  • Spelling Suggestions – Using words from indexed content
  • Date Range search – restrict search results to a particular date range
  • Automatic highlighting of user search query terms in HTML and PDF documents
  • Keyword-in-Context Display – search results are displayed with areas of content where the keyword occurs
  • User-defined number of search results per page
  • Simple and Advanced Query Syntax
  • Supports Boolean AND, OR, and NOT searches, Fuzzy and fielded searches
  • Browsable Categories for quick access to categorized content
  • Sort – search results can be sorted by date, relevance or alphabetically
  • Hit Highlighting – query terms are highlighted on content title and description
  • Collections – users can limit search to specific collections
  • Administrator Features

    • AJAX-based Admin Console – easy to use and intuitive console to manage all aspects of the Search application
    • Featured Results – Highlight links in the search results page when the user enters specific search terms
    • Web-based editor for easy customization of search results
    • Fast deployemnt of clustered search results using in-built clustering engine
    • Choice of Memory-Based Index (for very fast indexing) or Disk-Based Index (for large document collections)
    • Built-in Replication to synchronize search indexes across multiple instances of SearchBlox
    • Collections – create up to 250 document collections with customized settings
    • Look & Feel – search results customizable using CSS or XSLT stylesheets. Can also be delivered as XML
    • Automatic Generation of Browsable Categories using Category metadata in feeds and documents
    • Built-in Crawlers to index HTTP, HTTPS, File System, emails (PST files), RSS and Atom Web Feed content
    • Built-in file serving of documents in File System Collections and Outlook PST archives
    • Support for indexing content through Proxy Servers
    • Selective indexing of sections of HTML pages using <noindex> </noindex> or <!–stopindex–> <!–startindex–> tags
    • Protected Content – crawlers can index content protected with Basic HTTP and Form-Based Authentication
    • Reporting – real-time reporting with weekly, daily and hourly top queries and zero match queries for upto 3 months
    • On-Demand & Scheduled Indexing of content
    • Check for duplicate documents during indexing
    • Addition and Deletion of individual documents from the index
    • Disable stemming for individual indexes

    Supported Languages

    SearchBlox can index content in 37 languages

    • Arabic
    • Bengali
    • Chinese(Simplified)
    • Chinese(Traditional)
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • English
    • Estonian
    • Finnish
    • French
    • German
    • Greek
    • Gujarati
    • Hebrew
    • Hindi
    • Hungarian
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Kannada
    • Korean
    • Latvian
    • Lithuanian
    • Malayalam
    • Norwegian
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    • Romanian
    • Slovak
    • Slovenian
    • Spanish
    • Swedish
    • Tamil
    • Telugu
    • Thai
    • Turkish

    Supported File Formats

    • HTML
    • Word
    • Excel
    • PowerPoint
    • PDF
    • Text
    • RTF
    • OpenOffice
    • 32-bit and 64-bit Outlook PST Archive files