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dtSearch Web with Spider

The easy out-of-the-box browser based search solution

   
Just a few clicks lets you add a dozen search options to your site.
Display HTML and PDF documents with highlighted hits, with all links and images intact and functional.
Built-in file converters to convert word processor, database, spreadsheet, ZIP, Unicode and more to HTML for display with highlighted hits.
Multiple hit and file navigation options.
Licensed for unlimited concurrent client users, with *no limit on number of documents*.

How dtSearch Works on the Web
dtSearch Web uses an index that it builds to search instantly through Terabytes of text. Just select the folders that you want to index, dtSearch automatically recognizes and supports all popular file formats, and never alters or moves your original files.

Requirements
dtSearch Web requires IIS 4 or later. See support article for details.

Indexing
Select "Add Folder..." as shown below. Once dtSearch has built an index, it can automatically update it using the Windows Task Scheduler to reflect additions, deletions and modifications to your document collection.
There is no limit on the number of folders (or individual files) that dtSearch Web can index. You can have dtSearch Web index all of your drives and folders in one index, or you can create separate indexes for groups of related documents. Indexes can overlap -- i.e. the same documents can be placed in separate indexes.

update index dialog-box

Web Setup
With a few mouse clicks, dtSearch Web Form Builder lets you designate multiple indexes to search on your site, and automatically generates a search page. T
he Form Builder lets you customise the contents of search results, the document display, and the search form itself. (You can also use an HTML editor such as Dreamweaver to edit the search form.)

Searching
The form builder will automatically install the search form on your Internet or Intranet Web site, so visitors can instantly carry out a search.

dtSearch Web for your Intranet

Search Options
dtSearch Web supports the following search options:

  • single word, phrase and boolean (and, or, not)
  • All the words, Any of the Words, Exact Match. Built-in relevancy-ranking by "hit" density and rarity (so that words which appear more rarely in your documents will receive a higher relevancy ranking)
  • fuzzy searching, adjustable from 1 to 10, to sift through typographical or spelling errors
  • stemming, to automatically find different word variations (like find, finds, finding)
  • phonic searching, to find words that sound alike (like Smith and Smythe)
  • thesaurus searching, to find related concepts and synonyms, using dtSearch Web's built-in thesaurus and/or user-defined concepts or synonyms

    While dtSearch Web supports all of these search options, Webmasters can easily customise published Web pages to include or exclude any of these options.

Display
After a search, dtSearch Web will display retrieved files with hit highlighting, and all links and images intact. The result looks just like the original HTML or PDF page, but with highlighted hits. HTML links remain fully functional in the document. "next hit", "previous document", "next document" buttons let you quickly navigate through your hits and documents.

For XML, you can perform indexed searches using the full range of dtSearch features across an entire XML database, or limited to a highly specific combination of fields or sub-fields.

For other file types, dtSearch uses built-in file converters to convert non-Web-ready formats such as wordprocessor, database, spreadsheet, ZIP, etc., to HTML for display with highlighted hits.

Updates & Support

Technical support and product updates are free for one year with all purchases of dtSearch Web
Technical support is to a single point of contact, please Register your purchase
 

Related Topics

dtSearch Spider
FindPlus® Distributed Searching: for searching remote enterprise servers.
Full-Text Search Features
Fields

 

Evaluations, Pricing & Orders

To try a fully-functional copy of dtSearch Web please complete the Enquiry Form

To try online demos of dtSearch Web, including HTML, PDF and XML searching - click here.

Price list and order form can be found
at our Orders page