UltimateSearch

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Add useful search engine on your Web site. UltimateSearch is a set of ASP.NET controls to add search functionality to your Web site. It is composed of two server controls: UltimateSearchInput and UltimateSearchOutput. UltimateSearchInput gets the search terms and search type from the user, and then redirects them to the search output page in a query string. UltimateSearchOutput retrieves the search terms and search type from the query string, calls the search functions, and displays the search results.

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UltimateSearch V3.1

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Ready for ASP.NET 3.5
Karamasoft rebuilt all of its components from the ground up natively in ASP.NET 3.5.

What’s new in V3.0?

Brand New Indexing Model: The old version was keeping the whole index in memory with the option of saving it into a file. However, it came with the cost of high memory consumption, and inability of indexing large websites. The new indexing model relies heavily on files, but it also caches some portion of the index in memory for fast access.

Index Large Websites: Index unlimited number of documents in unlimited number of internal and external websites.

Auto Reindex: Reindex your website either manually by using the links on the Admin page, or automatically based on the reindex frequency and file dependency settings in the Config file. You can either set a frequency, or specify a file dependency for full or incremental indexing.

Full/Incremental Reindex: Reindex your website either fully from scratch, or incrementally with only the updated documents based on their last update time.

Display Search Time: Display search processing time as part of the header portion of the search results by adding the [SearchTime] tag into the HeaderFormat property.

Display Result Counters: Display result counters right next to the search results for easy referencing by turning on the DisplayCounter property.

Display Watermark Text: Display default text such as "Enter search terms here" in the search texbox by setting the WatermarkText property. It will be cleaned up automatically when the user clicks inside the textbox.

Display FirstPage & LastPage Links: Display page links for first page and last page by setting the FirstPage and LastPage properties that are shown in the FooterFormat property with [FirstPage] and [LastPage] tags respectively.

Avoid Duplicate Results: Index each url only once with the help of new features.
a) Use defaultDocumentList in UltimateSearch.config to index only one of the followings:
http://www.mydomain.com/
http://www.mydomain.com/default.aspx
b) Automatically decode each url to index only one of the followings:
http://www.mydomain.com/my-page.aspx
http://www.mydomain.com/my%2Dpage.aspx

Advanced Search Operators: Instead of explicitly using the SearchTypeList radio buttons, you can implicitly use the search type operators such as "or" for "any word", "double quotes" for "exact phrase", and "*" for "partial match".

Directory Settings: Use the new indexDirectory and logDirectory elements in the config file to specify the directories as opposed to using the old file path settings for index, log and other files. You need to give write permission to these directories in order to save the index and log files.

Obsolete Features: Discontinued the saveIndex and saveTextWithIndex configuration elements based on the new file-based indexing model. It is also not possible to temporarily crawl and index a website anymore since the index needs to be kept in files as well as in memory.

What's New in V2.3?

• CausesValidation: Added a new property to let the user decide whether the search button causes validation
• SubmitOnEnter: Fixed an issue with the SubmitOnEnter feature in FireFox
• AJAX Enabled: Supports UltimateAjax (former UltimateCallback) and ASP.NET AJAX (former Atlas)

Here is a list of some of the basic features of UltimateSearch:

• Search Engine - Add a search engine to your Web site quickly and easily
• No Coding Required - No need to write a single line of code on either server-side or client-side
• No Database Required – The index is serialized in a binary file, and cached in memory
• No Indexing Service - Search engine is completely independent of Microsoft Indexing Service
• XML and CSS - Configuration and style based on XML and CSS industry standards
• Search Types - Provide advanced search options such as all words, any word, exact phrase, and partial match
• Auto Reindex - Reindex your Web site either manually or automatically based on the reindex frequency setting
• Auto Suggestions - Display suggested search terms as the user types in the search textbox
• Event and Search Logs - Log all operational events, and every search request for future reporting purposes
• Proxy and Network Security - Configure proxy server settings as well as Windows authentication credentials
• Stop Words - Define a list of commonly used or private words not to be indexed and searched
• Robots Support - Use robots file or robots meta tags to exclude paths from crawling
• Parametric Scoring - Assign different weights to a word based on its location in the page such as url, title, etc.
• Full Configuration - Configure all indexing parameters in an XML formatted configuration file
• Full Customization - Easily customize the design of search input and output controls to match the style of your Web site
• Custom Input and Output – The ability to use your own controls to collect search input and display search results
• Multi-Type Search Button - Use the most suitable search button among regular, image, or link buttons, simply by setting the type
• Multiple Domain Search - Index as many Web sites and Web applications as you wish into one common dictionary
• Server-Side API – Includes an extensive class library to add search capabilities to your application programmatically
• Server-Side Events: When the user clicks the search button, a server-side event can be raised to add custom validation techniques
• Cross-Browser Support: IE4+, NS4+, Firefox 1.0+, Mozilla 1.0+, Opera 7.5+