SearchBlox is a high-performance Content Search Software designed for corporate intranets, websites, Portals and custom-applications.

SearchBlox offers the best in search technology to enable search users find the correct information quickly and efficiently. With the Plug'N'Play architecture of SearchBlox, you can implement search functionality in a matter of minutes saving you valuable time and money. With an unique combination of ease of customization and simplified search software management, SearchBlox offers the most cost-effective solution to your corporate search challenges. Experience the simplicity of SearchBlox that thousands of users have already experienced by trying out the SearchBlox FREE Edition.

Here are some key features of "SearchBlox Server":

· End User Features
· Advanced Search - Search by file format, language, keyword occurrence and modified date
· 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
· 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
· Web-based Admin Console - easy to use and intuitive console to manage all aspects of the Search application
· Choice of Memory-Based Index (for very fast indexing) or Disk-Based Index (for large document collections)
· Collections - create up to 250 document collections with customized settings
· Look & Feel - search results customizable using XSLT stylesheets. Can also be delivered as XML
· Built-in Crawlers to index HTTP, HTTPS and File System based content
· Support for indexing content through Proxy Servers
· Protected Content - crawlers can index content protected with Basic HTTP and Form-Based Authentication
· Reporting - real-time reporting with weekly, daily and hourly result sets, top queries and zero match queries
· On-Demand & Scheduled Indexing of content
· Addition and Deletion of individual documents from the index
· Disable stemming for individual indexes
· Content Features
· Many Supported File Types
· Can index content in 30 languages
· Stopwords - separate stopword list for each supported language
· MetaTags - supports standard meta tag fields (title, description, keyword).


Limitations:

· To evaluate SearchBlox, you can download and use the SearchBlox FREE Edition. The SearchBlox FREE Edition can index up to 1000 documents and offers all the features available in the other Editions. The only restriction in the SearchBlox FREE Edition is the absence of the search results as XML feature and the presence of the SearchBlox logo at the bottom of the search results page.


Requirements:

· Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4.


What's New in This Release:

· [feature] Replication of indexes between multiple instances of the SearchBlox
· [feature] Hit highlighting of search terms in HTML and PDF documents
· [change] Redesigned AJAX-based SearchBlox Admin Console
· [change] API Optimize command saves the collection as well
· [bugfix] HTTP/Feed/FilesSystem Scanners handle '+' in URLs for Allow and Disallow paths
· [bugfix] Correctly close the SpellChecker after use
· [bugfix] Support for all Namespaces in HTML Parser