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•	Why do I need my own Search Engine?
•	What is the difference between PicoSearch and traditional Search Engines?
•	What is "Search Hosting"?
•	How is Search Hosting with PicoSearch better than installing hardware or software?
•	Is PicoSearch guaranteed? How can I try it out?
•	What are the Free Account search results sponsor links?
•	How BIG a site can I index?
•	How OFTEN is my index updated?
•	Will PicoSearch work with CGI and ASP? What about ASP.Net?
•	Can I search my password protected directories?
•	Will PicoSearch work in a shopping cart system? (adding runtime url data)
•	Can PicoSearch search my database?
•	Can PicoSearch search my secure server (SSL)?
•	Can PicoSearch search PDFs, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more?
•	Can PicoSearch do XML? (for search or webservice datafeed)
•	What's New at PicoSearch?

•	What are the advantages of the Professional and Premium Plans over the Free Plan?
•	Do paying accounts get advanced statistics reporting? (reports, metrics, analytics)
•	Can paid accounts get an XML datafeed for the search results?
•	Can paid accounts do hit highlighting?
•	Is it easy to upgrade to a Professional or Premium Plan whenever I want?
•	Are bulk discounts available, as for resellers?
•	How can I hide all references to PicoSearch using my purchased plan?
•	How flexible is my purchased Plan's template?
•	What if I get dead links in my search results template?
•	How can I use additional files in my search results template? (htc files, server side includes)

•	How do I subscribe to PicoSearch?
•	How can I set my logo in a Free Plan?
•	How do I install PicoSearch on my website?
•	How do I align and center the search tools on my web pages?
•	Can I create a single search engine for multiple web sites?
•	How can I restrict the scope of my index?
•	What will PicoSearch do with my images and other non-text files?
•	How long will PicoSearch indexing take?
•	What can I do to slow the crawler if my server complains?
•	Do I have to wait for the PicoSearch indexer to finish?
•	What can I do about Framesets and Frames!?

•	How do I update the indexing to include the changes from my website?
•	Can PicoSearch index and search files besides HTML? (PDF, DOC, ASP, etc.)
•	What happens when I hit the maximum pages in my account?
•	How can I combine sites in my search engine to get a mini web portal effect?
•	Will PicoSearch index and search my document titles, meta tags, image alts, and file names?
•	How can I control the international language character set used at indexing time?
•	How can I control the skipping of text or links in my search? (Excluded Paths, more)
•	How can I control the adding of text or links to my search? (Help for not found pages)
•	Can I split pages at anchor tags and jump to anchor sections?
•	Why didn't PicoSearch find all of my documents?
•	What does Link out of Bounds mean?
•	Does PicoSearch honor the robot exclusion protocol?

•	What is "results in context" (also known as concordance), and what are its advantages?
•	What is the syntax of a query?
•	How can I initialize the search when it starts up? (ANY/ALL and other defaults)
•	How can I influence the outcome of a search (ranking) ?
•	What are my options for displaying the title and other parts of each search result?
•	How do I set the file date for date display and sorting?
•	How can I keep certain URLs on top in the Search Results (using promote and demote)?
•	How can I use Direct Searches to send certain searches directly to certain pages?
•	What if I want to rotate the top results?
•	Can I filter search terms (set stopwords) so that my users can ask questions in whole sentences?
•	How much can I customize the results pages?
•	How can I pop up the search into a new window?
•	How can I redirect my URLs in the search results?

•	Can PicoSearch do hit highlighting?
•	How can I get the cursor to appear automatically (set focus) in my search box?
•	How do I add a reset (clear) button to my search form?
•	Can I put a product photo or page icon next to each search result?
•	Can I display results in columns (tables) or customize my product photo layout?
•	Can I search for my own fields and use multiple inputs with drop-down boxes like a database query?
•	Can I divide my search engine into several different sections (partitions)?
•	How can I use more than one display language?
•	If I'm using frames, how can I put the search box in one frame and have the results appear in another frame?
•	How can I stop another site from hijacking my search engine within their frames?
•	How can I use a Professional or Premium Plan's template to customize the search box and buttons?
•	What template codes can I use to further customize my Professional search results?
•	Can I feed the current search to my own ad banner system to get keyword sensitivity?

•	I lost my password and/or my account identification! What can I do?
•	What is the PicoSearch policy on my privacy?
•	Are there restrictions on the kinds of websites I can index?

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