SoftPerfect Research Offers Free Search Engine
April 2, 2010
A happy quack to the reader who sent me a link to the SoftPerfect Intranet Search engine. We have not put the software through its paces yet, but I wanted to document the location of the software and jot down some basic information. You can download the system from this link.
The company says: The system is
a self-contained index-based network search engine that indexes all files in your local area network and provides users with the ability to locate necessary files within a few seconds. It returns blazingly fast search results to your users, even when large numbers of shared files and folders are present.
The system operates through a browser. Its features include the ability to:
- Index available shared folders on the network or just those that you select.
- Use its own built-in high-speed searchable database.
- Be configured via an administration console.
- Schedule crawl modes.
- Built-in database- and web-server with ability to use third party web-server.
- Use either separate ISAPI or CGI Web-server modules
The system does not index file contents, which means that file names have to be darned clear.
Stephen E Arnold, April 2, 2010
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If it doesn’t index the full text content, is it still Search?
After fifteen years of AltaVista, Inktomi, and Google, I think the expectation is full text search. In which case, this needs a label, like “File Name Search”. We never said “analog” clock before there were digital clocks…