Webinator - Sommario

Webinator by Thunderstone

URLs: webinator, thunderstone

Web index and retrieval system. Webinator is a highly customizable package that allows a Website administrator to easily create and deploy a high quality search interface to collections of web documents. With support for multiple collections, a single installation can serve searches for many websites, or different areas within a website, and a customizable thesaurus or synonym file allows users to find documents even if the terminology they use is different from that on the site. Webinator creates a full-text search interface to collections of HTML, PDF, word processing, and other types of documents, which may be on a web site, intranet, or anywhere on the Internet. Features include: relevance ranking, customizable user interface, web-based administration, Index Flash and JavaScript links and content. Index multiple sites, update while in use, similarity searches ('more like this'), indexes secure (ssl/https) sites, ignores navigation bars and duplicate pages, detailed verification and logging.

From an administrator's perspective Webinator offers the following benefits:

Fully customizable search interface with XML and SOAP support.

Index multiple sites into one common index.

Detailed verification and logging of document linkages.

Index/update documents while database is in use.

Multiple databases at a site.

SQL query interface to the database for maintenance and reports.

Multiple index engines run concurrently against a common database.

Adobe Acrobat / PDF file support, with highlighting of hits within AcrobatReader.

Adobe Shockwave/Flash file support.

100+ word processor and file formats.

From a user's perspective Webinator offers:

Simple navigation.

Powerful and easy to use queries for:

Natural language

Set logic

Special pattern matchers (regular expressions, quantities, fuzzy patterns)

Relevance ranking

Proximity controls

Document similarity searches (Doc Surfing).

Link reference reports.

In Context result listings.

What's new in Webinator V6.1:

Enhanced Microsoft Office Open XML support: The default formats for Office/Word 2007/2010+ (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx etc. files) are now supported more accurately

Custom Suffix List: Customize search suffix processing even further -- add suffixes for other languages

Multiple rewalk schedules: Trigger a profile's crawl at multiple times, tailored to your environment's needs

Webinator V6.0 has many improvements, including:

XML output and SOAP API: Search results in XML are available, for complete customization via XSL stylesheets. A SOAP API makes automated searches easy

Faster crawls: Support for HTTP/1.1 compression is standard, which can speed up crawling and decrease bandwidth

Faster searches: New Categories Type setting improves category searches in many environments

Unicode support: International searches are easier with the ability to ignore or respect accents, diacritical marks, etc.

Meta search: Version 6 supports meta-searching of multiple profiles, combining their results as if one

Customizable Thesaurus: Search terms unique to an industry or site can be added to aid users' searches, via customizable thesauri

Backup/restore settings: Version 6 can save and restore all or some profiles' settings, making disaster recovery or installation cloning easier

Webinator 6 (which uses Texis 6) has the following new features and changes. See the Webinator manual for details:

Meta Search

Maintenance Section

License Updates Applicable via Web Interface

XML Results

SOAP API

Compressed HTML Support

Faster Category Searches

Customizable Thesaurus

Results Authorization

Group by Site

Backup and Restore Settings

Apply/Revert Appearance Changed to Buttons

CSS Admin GUI

Text Search Mode

Language Analysis Module

Extensions Renamed and Default Changed

Exclusions Default Changed

Web index and retrieval system.

Pricing: Webinator V6.1 Commercial License, Webinator V6.1 Commercial License Upgrade from previous version, Webinator V6.1 Professional License, Webinator V6.1 Professional License Upgrade from previous version, Webinator V6.1 Enterprise License, Webinator V6.1 Enterprise License Upgrade from previous version

Evals & Downloads: Read the Webinator Manual

Operating System for Deployment: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, Sun Solaris 9, Sun Solaris 8, HP-UX 11.x, HP-UX 10.x, IBM AIX 5.x, IBM AIX 4.3.x, SGI IRIX 6.5.x, Linux Kernel V2.4.x, RedHat Linux 7.x, SUSE Linux 8.x, FreeBSD, FreeBSD 4.x

Product Type: Component, Application

Component Type: DLL

Web Services: SOAP Binding Transport HTTP GET, SOAP Binding Transport HTTP POST, SOAP Binding Transport HTTPS GET, SOAP Binding Transport HTTPS POST, SOAP Binding Transport SMTP, SOAP Binding Transport FTP

Compatible Containers: Microsoft Internet Information Server 5.0, Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0

Product Class: Component Development Tools

Keywords: Webinator, INDEXING TEXT SEARCH RETRIEVAL CRAWLING

Thunderstone

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Part numbers: PC-513600-401038 513600-401038 PC-513600-401043 513600-401043 PC-513600-401039 513600-401039 PC-513600-401044 513600-401044 PC-513600-401040 513600-401040 PC-513600-401045 513600-401045