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More statistics for Top Partitions, Top Documents, etc:* the number of top searches per Partition and similar features have been doubled, and Not Found searches added for Partitions. So with Partitions you can subdivide your search to see more local statistics, as well as search specific areas. See more...
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Direct Search plugins for unlimited Q&A effects:* Direct searches allow you to define searches that go directly to certain pages, now with plugins and "look before you leap" tests you can map patterns of search questions to patterns of answer pages without even indexing! See more...
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JSON/JSONP datafeed, with data upgrades for XML too:* paying customers can now freely consume JSON as well as XML datafeeds for super customizing their search results, including Partitions, AvailablePartitions, and a UserData field that can be populated per document. See more...
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More Title, Meta, and URL display options: in the Configure Results section of your account manager, you can break Titles at certain characters or lengths, create Metas from min/max length first lines of the document with respect for line breaks, and link URLs link Titles back to the document.
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Controlling non-HTML Titles and Metas: if the search result titles and meta descriptions of formats like PDFs, Word, and Excel are giving you problems, here's a great idea for making a central page that sets them in the links: more...
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XML datafeed 2.0 returns Partition information:* customers who consume datafeed results can now reindex to retrieve the partitions of each file for category style displays, more...
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Data Extracting with Page Definitions: PicoSearch now offers an extensible Automatic Data Extraction feature that allows you to define patterns in your HTML for the locating of extra information at indexing time to be seen in your search results. The first use of the feature now available is automatic identification of product photos, very handy for catalog sites. Read details here!
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AutoComplete with advanced customizability:* PicoSearch now offers AutoComplete, the ability to automatically offer
suggested searches from a list of matches as the user types, including
full customizability from both index generated and additionally entered
words and phrases. A very powerful feature, read all about here!
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New Template Codes to Add/Replace search features:* PicoSearch's powerful search results design system got a new set of template codes for customizing more parts of the search, such as rewording and relocating the pagebar.
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Spanish Spell Checking:* automatic spelling corrections are now offered for Spanish as well as English, and more languages are available upon request.
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Less Important words: new ability
to customize the search importance of specific terms without having to
eliminate them as stopwords. more...
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Query Rules:* incredibly powerful feature to adjust user searches for normalizations,
vocabulary standardizing, and other pattern based enrichments. more...
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ALL words failover to ANY
word search: searching in ALL words mode is more specific, and safer now
that an ANY word search will be tried automatically if no results
found. more...
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Excluded Tags with Link Following:* tag based exclusions were always a great way to automatically remove
parts of pages from your search, and now with the link following option
it works perfectly around redundant navigation text. more...
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Combine Stopwords with Direct
Searches: we made sure that if you remove a word from the search using
the stop words feature, you can also rely on that word to trigger direct
searches first. more...
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Daily and Downloadable Statistics:* a major upgrade for PicoSearch's statistics reporting includes the
ability to select date ranges, download to CSV or XML, and track more
optional features like Hit Highlighting more...
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XML datafeed version 2:* for customers who prefer to consume search results in their own server scripts, version 2 offers more useful information more...
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Tabled Results Display: present
your results in tables with columns instead of a standard list format.
Allows for multiple columns, customization of your product photos
layout, additional options. more...
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Ellipses Control:* if you ever wanted to customize the concordance ellipses, there are template codes for this now.
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Hit Highlighting:* Professional and Premium accounts can now offer advanced hit
highlighting features on their search results. Unprecedented control
options are useful, attractive, and fun for your site visitors - see the Hit Highlighting FAQ for examples and details.
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Switch to search HTML menu
options: HTML drop-down menus can contain a lot of information such as
product options on an ecommerce site. PicoSearch defaults to searching
this information, but since it can be hard to see on the page you may
turn the option off in your account manager's Index Modes section.
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Indexer Sitemap Support: if your site is generating the increasingly popular XML sitemap protocol to help your site get indexed on web search engines, PicoSearch can also follow these to search all of your site. more...
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Dynamic Partition Menus: a
powerful feature of PicoSearch is to make searchable sub-sections of
your site called partitions. The menus for these partitions can be
adjusted depending on the search box that the user starts from. more...
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Split Pages and Search to
the HTML Anchored Sections: pages with long lists of products or similar
distinct items can now be split into separately searchable mini-pages
along HTML anchor tags, with search results jumping directly to each
section. more...
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Language Specifiers in Template Codes:* Now Professional and Premium accounts can set multiple alternate text
pieces for different languages in the search results, see Template Codes FAQ.
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Cookie Initializing for
Password Protection and more: now it's easier than ever to help
PicoSearch enter your password protected directories with full cookie
initializing support more...
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More Duplicate Document
Controls: remove duplicate files based on directory or file name
differences, in the Index Modes section of your account manager.
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More Payment Options, Lower Entry Price:* Now you can pay online for 3, 6, or 12 month purchases of Professional
and Premium, with pro-rated upgrade options in between. Larger accounts
are also no problem, just contact us.
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Override titles and metas
with more HTML: we see customers doing clever things with title and
meta description overriding, so we made sure they fully support embedded
HTML more...
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More Portal Control: the
powerful Portal List feature, which allows you to control on your site a
list of exactly which files or sites to index, now offers separate
maximums for pages or documents. more...
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Hide Concordance Per File: a special tag can suppress the concordance for any file in the search results. more...
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Control Spelling Correction Messages:* Paid accounts get template codes to control three kinds of spelling correction messages in search results. more...
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Partitions LINKSFROM: Now
you can maintain long or dynamic lists of partition patterns on your own
server using the LINKSFROM: keyword. more...
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More Promotions control: PicoSearch's unique and powerful Promotions feature enables you to send search results to the top in three categories of
pattern matching, and now all three obey strict order sensitivity as you
list them in your account manager.
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Results per Page and Total
Results control: you can set these maximums for results in your account
manager's Ranking Options & Promotions section
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Direct Searches: This
powerful new feature allows you to send particular keyword searches
directly to particular page on your site, either conditionally or
unconditionally. Like with the Promotions feature, you get unprecedented
control over what your visitors will find and see. more...
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More Top Terms in Statistics:* The number of reported Top Terms, Queries, and Not Founds has been
doubled for paying accounts: 100 for Professional and 200 for Premium more...
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Remove PicoSearch classes:* With template codes, paid accounts can easily insert new classes in the
results page. The code PICO_RM_CLASS_PICO will remove all of
PicoSearch's default classes in one step. more...
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PDF maximums:* Of all the formats that paying accounts index, PDFs count for the number of pages and can
stretch account page limits. A PDF page limiter option is now available
in the Additional Formats section of the account manager.
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Excluded Tags:* Now paid accounts can exclude specific parts of files from the search based on existing tags, a very powerful feature! more...
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DHTML behaviors (htc files) support:* here is a solution for including external behavior files like csshover.htc in your search results template
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HTML Title matching for
Excluded Paths and Partitions: Now you can pick out the pages for your
total search engine or for specific partitions based on the HTML title
rather than just the URL. See the Excluded Paths and Search Partitions
sections of your account manager, and the FAQ links found there.
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Easier Defaut Setting for Any/All/Exact searching: In addition to the techniques of the Initializing FAQ, you can set the searching mode default in the Page Design section of your account manager.
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Override the Number of
Results dynamically: In addition to the Number of Results choices in the
Ranking Options section of your account manager, you can now initialize
the value per search call. See the Initializing FAQ.
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XHTML compliance: New
accounts default to XHTML Transitional compliance in the search results,
and older accounts can convert as needed in the "Colors, Fonts &
Display" section of the account manager (free accounts have no
templating and get XHTML without choice)
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Linkpic patterns:* now paid accounts can specify file patterns in their template for ../images shown next to search results more...
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Synonym Phrases:* the synonyms feature is improved with support for multi-word phrases more...
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Improved searching of
possessives: in addition to matching English singular and plural nouns
interchangeably, possessive ('s) forms are also found
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Improved Duplicate Page Reporting:* now when PicoSearch skips a duplicate page in your Most Recent Indexing Log, you'll see exactly which pages were compared
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Flash Demo Gives a Tour of PicoSearch: enjoy a little movie about the benefits of PicoSearch
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Redirecting Search Results: we've expanded and organized the options for redirecting the links in your search results
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Title Override Tag Pattern:* if your pages have a better title within a certain pattern of <tag
attribute=value>, set this in your account manager's Index Modes
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List of Partitions: if you use Search Partitions, this handy report will show what's in them after indexing!
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User Synonyms:* set your own groups of related words to increase search matching more...
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British/American Spelling Variants:* equally find English spelling variants like theater and theatre more...
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Title, Meta Weighting:* set relative weighting of titles and metas to influence search results more...
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Improved Javascript Indexing: PicoSearch is better than ever at following your Javascript links, try it and see!
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Improved Reindex Comparison Tools: account managers will automatically compare before and after lists when indexes are smaller
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Search for
Filenames and Parts of Filenames: choose to add parsed filenames to your
search in your account manager's Index Modes section
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Set Focus on Search Box Automatically:* Get a cursor to appear in your search box when the page loads more...
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File Types summary report:* the Most Recent Indexing Log lists totals found by file type, helping you identify files that shouldn't be indexed
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Meta Description custom
length: are your meta descs too long? the account manager's Configure
Results section offers a cutoff for "up to length any"
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UTF-8 European Support: UTF-8 characters are supported for West European languages by implicit conversion to iso-8859-1 more...
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Automatic Billing Reminders:* paying accounts will receive pay due reminders starting 8 weeks in
advance of due date, with invoices sent if requested by reply
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Better Indexing Tracking:* documents with multiple pages (PDFs can be multi-page), too-long docs,
and other situations are better explained in account manager's List of
Documents and Most Recent Indexing Log
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More Title Options: the title of
each search result can be the HTML page title, or meta desc (now with
length limit), filename, URL, or special tag more...
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More Concordance controls:* set maximum number of concordance lines in the Configure Results section of your account manager
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Set crawler delay
between pages: PicoSearch indexing is more efficient than ever, so maybe
your server will appreciate this control ability more...
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CSS Control of Search Results:* more template codes than ever to set classes on display parts more...
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Randomize results: an easy way to rotate the top search listings, for example in a portal more...
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Better Skip Tags: NOSEARCHSTART and NOSEARCHEND will always be supported, but have been replaced by more precise controls more...
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Incremental Reindexing:* accurate faster indexing grabs only the files that have changed more...
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Search MS PowerPoint files:* another format for paying accounts more...
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File Date Sorting:* as default or in a configurable user options more...
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Flexible accurate display of File Date, Size, and URL: international, timezone support, alternate inputs more...
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Find Plural and Singular Words automatically: correct grammatical matching in 14 different languages! more...
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Try an alternate method in Ranking Options: Choose Frequency or Weighted Relevancy formulas more...
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Customize amount of Concordance: in your Configure Results section
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Twice weekly Scheduled Reindexing:* now you can set two automatic days independently
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PDF Title and Meta Indexing:* new Adobe filter version guarantees these will be found more...
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Advanced Search Reports: what's found, what's not found, more trends and statistics.
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Keep certain URLs on top in the Search Results with Promote and Demote! more...
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"Search Within" results for recursive searching more...
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Set number of times to retry "Not Found" pages more...
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Divide your search engine into several different sections to be searched! more...
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Database style tricks: set product ../images, drop down boxes, and multi-field query forms more...
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More Design Options: Button, Margin, Logo Text more...
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Full Boolean support for total search control! more...
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Another format: search MIDI files more...
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Template control of results phrases* more...
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Search text in MP3 and Shockwave files more...
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Follow Shockwave links with confidence more...
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File type icons and plain-text on/off more...
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More Automatic Reindexing Scheduler controls* more...
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Include Guests in your search engine and become a mini Web Portal! more...
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More for Free Accounts: Icon Choices, Font Colors, and Backgrounds more...
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Full control to index Titles, Meta Tags, and Alts more...
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One-click buttons and links to your search more...
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Specify stopwords for sentence input more...
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Index Word, Excel, PDF files and more!* more...
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Handle long URLs for browser portability more...
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Specify Exclusion Directories more...
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See more Top Terms* more...
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New Topics menu for Manager Power! more...
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Filter CGI script args more...
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Login by your Email address more...
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Reindexing Warnings if fewer pages more...
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Automatic Reindexing Scheduler ¹ more...
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Unlimited Entry Points!* more...
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User Help for searchers more...
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Password protected site indexing more...
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Frameset solutions more...
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Offline Indexing options more...
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Advanced Display Settings more...
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Free Multi-lingual Reporting more...
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More Templating tools *more... |
