Keyoti Search Lite ASP.NET

What's New inKeyoti Search for ASP.NET 2010.1.0?

• Inclusion of .NET 4 DLLs and VS 2010 demos
• Inclusion of Web Admin / Windows Service versions for .NET 1, 2 (3, 3.5) and 4
• Faster searching (with larger indexes)
• Configuration.ImpliedLogicOperator can now be used to change the default operator that is assumed between query words from AND to OR
• Insertion of "..." in the result summary when more than one snippet of text is used. "..." can be changed in Configuration.SummaryTextSplitter  

What's New in Keyoti Search for ASP.NET 2010 (V4)?

• Vastly improved indexing performance, especially with larger indexes (50K docs up)
• Faster searching
• New index methodology
• Stop lists
• API improvements
• SearchBox options generates option controls automatically

What's New in Search Lite ASP.NET V3?

• Substantial improvement in PDF indexing performance (CPU and memory usage)
• Fixed bugs relating to image based search buttons
• Added wildcard search support, eg. "excel*" or "*ment" or "*read*".
• Database indexing
• Filesystem based document importing
• Plugin architecture added
• Simplified index configuration
• New international spelling dictionaries
• Improved search performance
• Improved performance when indexing large numbers of documents (over 10,000)
• Simpler customizability (event based)
• Support for multiple simultaneous indexes
• Autocomplete and result preview AJAX functionality for Controls
• Support for more document types (added .xls, .ppt, ODF, OOXML)
• Improved robustness
• Chinese / Japanese / Korean language support
• Easier single page search/results support
• Meta tag based location/category assignment
• Plugin DLL based location/category assignment
• Added option for spelling suggestions to be taken from search lexicon, giving better suggestions. See SearchSuggestions.SpellingSuggestionSource
• Added FoundSpellingError event to SearchSuggestions to enable API user to addto/alter prescribed suggestions.

What's New in Search Lite ASP.NET V2.2?

• Fixed issue with some PDF document encoding of accented chars.
• Added option for spelling suggestions to be taken from search lexicon, giving better suggestions. See SearchSuggestions.SpellingSuggestionSource
• Added FoundSpellingError event to SearchSuggestions to enable API user to addto/alter prescribed suggestions.
• Added multilingual spelling dictionary

What's New in Search Lite ASP.NET V2.1?

• PDF document titles now read from PDF meta data
• Optimized build process memory usage to a scalable flat profile (lower overall usage)
• Optimized search speed in large (>1000000 occurrence) indexes

What's New in Search Lite ASP.NET V2.0?

• New FeaturedResults control added
• Crawl/build log window added showing website errors
• Build index operation memory use reduced
• Crawl depth setting added
• Unhyphenated word forms also searched. (eg. "website" now yields results containing "web site")

What's new in Search Lite ASP.NET V1.3?

• Ignore region properties added (IgnoreBlockBeginPattern/IgnoreBlockEndPattern), enabling menus etc to be omitted from the index
• When content encoding not returned by server, encoding is now read from meta tags
• Documents are now not *reindexed* if 'modified date' is older than the index (also see IgnoreLastModifiedDate)
• Visual Studio 2005 support added
• Search speed improvements
• Http compressed page support added (gzip/deflate)
• Summary word highlighting HTML element property added
• ReaderExceptionOccurredEvent added to enable programmatic detection of broken website links

Main Features

Search Lite for ASP.NET is an index based search engine control for ASP.NET web applications, written in .NET. It's design is fully customizable through it's use of templates. It is simple to use, being entirely control based no programming is required. It is easy to deploy, requiring only it's DLLs and index files to be moved to the server.

• High-speed index based searching
• Visual Studio based index management (spidering and indexing)
• Phrase matching
• Smart result summary & keyword highlighting
• Stemming/Lemmas - Word form variations are searched and ranked lower
• Complex expression support; nested groups, NOT, OR and AND
• Multiple document format indexing (Word, RTF, TXT, PDF, HTML [aspx, html, aspx, jsp...])
• Templated control
• Open, pure .NET API
• Indexes/crawls password protectected web-sites
• Completely 'Microsoft Indexing Service' independent
• Case sensitivity options
• Result DataSource merging
• Ignore region support
• Unicode and non English language support
• Featured results control
• ASP.NET 1.1 and higher compatible.

Details

• For users it provides high-speed search capabilities, with powerful search expressions;
  • Phrase matching
  • NOT, OR and AND operators
  • Groups and nested groups
  • Word stemming
• Implementation is as easy as
  • Drag SearchBox and SearchResult controls onto pages
  • Configure directory to store index files
  • Crawl and index web-site through integrated index management tool
• Extensible API gives developers broad usage scope
  • Custom document parsers
  • Custom ranking algorithms
  • Programmatic crawling, indexing and searching
  • Logging of user's search activities

Please, note that Keyoti Search for ASP.NET is available in two editions, Lite and Pro. These features are present only in Keyoti Search Pro for ASP.NET:

• Reusable administration web application: Web-based administration of Crawling, Indexing, Content/Location assignment, Configuration, Index deletion
• Windows Service based recrawling/reindexing: Optional Windows Service can be installed for periodic rebuilds.
• 'Did you mean?' spelling suggestions: Flexible spelling control checks queries, and includes custom dictionary support for organization acronyms, jargon and names.
• Content & Location categorization