Texis 6 from Thunderstone

March 9, 2012

A new version of the time-tested Thuderstone search software Texis has been announced in the news release “Thunderstone Releases Texis Version 6” on its Web site. Nearly every feature has been overhauled or altered for this new version, with much care put into updating the presentation and functionality .

From the article:

“New features available in Texis 6 include:

More intuitive searches, including Unicode support and accent-insensitive queries:
This improves non-English searches; e.g. “cœur” will also match “coeur”, “resume” will match “resumé”.

Improved XML/XSLT support, including a new API for building XML based applications more easily.

HTTP/1.1 support including gzip compression to reduce crawl times and bandwidth utilization:
Reduces load on targeted servers, and potentially allows access to more content.

Enhanced options for showing search results, including multiple snippets and styled highlighting:
Shows more query-relevant text in results, and allows full customization of query term presentation.”

Also updated were the Webinator tools, which now allow for faster category searches, expanded language usage (including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters), and a customizable thesaurus, to name a few key features. It should be noted that some of these changes are for the Texis program only, and not the main Thunderstone product. A full rundown of the changes is available here.

Stephen E Arnold, February 9, 2012

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