Multilingual Search – Easy to setup and manage for your website

By Timo Selvaraj

Setting up search for non-english languages or searching across many languages is a constant challenge for many organizations due to the differences in encoding, handling of words/meanings, synonyms and display of search results. While most search tools focus on providing an easy way to perform search for english content, they severely lack in terms of easy setup and support for multilingual content including CJK languages.

SearchBlox provides a simple solution that takes care of setting up search for non-english languages and supports 25+ languages out-of-the-box. Each collection is tied to a specific language which enables you to tune the stop words, synonyms and meta data handling without complicated configuration. SearchBlox lets you search across multiple languages at the same time and display them together taking out the complexities of handling encoding. SearchBlox lets you index multilingual documents like word, pdf, excel and ppt files, and ensures all formats are supported in non-english languages. SearchBlox also supports accented characters in file names, url paths, content and search terms allowing you to use the full power of search in any of the supported languages.

Here is the full list of the languages supported by SearchBlox:

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
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Contact us to learn more about solving your multilingual search challenges using SearchBlox.