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SearchBlox by SearchBlox Software

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Fast, Flexible, Enterprise Search Solution. SearchBlox is an out-of-the-box Enterprise Search Solution built on top of Apache Lucene. It is fast to deploy, easy to manage and available for both on-premise and cloud deployment. SearchBlox provides developers with a powerful search platform for developing and deploying search applications, without having in-depth knowledge of Apache Lucene. As SearchBlox is a full product with integrated crawlers and web-based index/collection management, developers will save considerable time and effort by using SearchBlox compared to building a search application from scratch using Apache Lucene.

SearchBlox provides developers with a powerful search platform for developing and deploying search applications, without having in-depth knowledge of Apache Lucene. As SearchBlox is a full product with integrated crawlers and web-based index/collection management, developers will save considerable time and effort by using SearchBlox compared to building a search application from scratch using Apache Lucene.

High Performance

SearchBlox is engineered from ground up to be Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) compatible. This enables SearchBlox is to leverage the performance and the scalability capabilities of J2EE technologies. The SearchBlox Architecture consists of several sub-systems designed for optimal performance and scalability.

Scalability

The Replication feature in SearchBlox keeps search indexes in multiple instances of SearchBlox across multiple physical machines synchronized. The SearchBlox instance that makes the indexes available for replication is called the Indexing Server and the one or more instances of SearchBlox that get the search indexes from the Indexing Server are called the Search Servers. The Indexing Server and the Search Servers use HTTP to communicate with each other.

Advanced API

The SearchBlox API provides the functionality to quickly crawl, index and search content. It completely hides all the complexities of dealing with the underlying Apache Lucene API. The SearchBlox API simplifies parsing and indexing documents accessible over HTTP or stored in the file system and also allows overriding of document content and/or metadata at index time.

Cloud Deployment

SearchBlox is available on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). There is no software or hardware to install. The SearchBlox Amazon Machine Images (AMI) are already configured for use on Amazon EC2. All you need to do is to select the SearchBlox AMI and start the instance.

On-premise Deployment

SearchBlox Server is available for fast deployment on Linux/Unix, Windows and Mac OS X platforms. The SearchBlox Server uses an one step installer for quick and error-free installation. In addition, it is available as a java war file for deployment to Java Application Servers such as Apache Tomcat.

SearchBlox Features:

Built on Apache Lucene

SearchBlox is built on Apache Lucene – the leading open source search library. Search indexes built using SearchBlox adhere to open standards and offer greater flexibility compared to closed proprietary platforms.

Integrated Crawlers

SearchBlox provides crawlers for Filesystems, HTTP/HTTPS and RSS Feeds that work out-of-the-box. The HTTP/HTTPS crawler can index both public and protected content.

Multi-lingual Support

SearchBlox can index content in 37 languages including European and Asian languages. Stopwords and stemming are also supported for the different languages.

On-premise or Cloud Deployment

SearchBlox is packaged for fast deployment to Windows, Linux and Mac OS X operating systems. In addition, it is also available for deployment on Amazon Web Services Platform (AWS) and Rackspace.

Simple Setup

SearchBlox is managed entirely through web-based Admin Console. Document collections can be configured and indexed in a matter of minutes. SearchBlox supports scheduled operations such as indexing, which greatly reduces administrative overheads for such repetitive tasks.

Enterprise Support

SearchBlox offers a choice of support options backed by Service Level Agreements (SLA) to suit client requirements. SearchBlox has a strong track record of providing support to over 300 customers in 30 countries over the last 7 years.

End-User Features

Seamlessly search across RSS and Atom Web Feeds, HTTP(S), Filesystem and custom content

Automatically group search results into clusters (clustered search) for fast access to the right information

Advanced Search – Search by file format, language, keyword occurrence and modified date

Spelling Suggestions – Using words from indexed content

Date Range search – restrict search results to a particular date range

Automatic highlighting of user search query terms in HTML and PDF documents

Keyword-in-Context Display – search results are displayed with areas of content where the keyword occurs

User-defined number of search results per page

Simple and Advanced Query Syntax

Supports Boolean AND, OR, and NOT searches, Fuzzy and fielded searches

Browsable Categories for quick access to categorized content

Sort – search results can be sorted by date, relevance or alphabetically

Hit Highlighting – query terms are highlighted on content title and description

Collections – users can limit search to specific collections

Administrator Features

AJAX-based Admin Console – easy to use and intuitive console to manage all aspects of the Search application

Featured Results – Highlight links in the search results page when the user enters specific search terms

Web-based editor for easy customization of search results

Fast deployemnt of clustered search results using in-built clustering engine

Choice of Memory-Based Index (for very fast indexing) or Disk-Based Index (for large document collections)

Built-in Replication to synchronize search indexes across multiple instances of SearchBlox

Collections – create up to 250 document collections with customized settings

Look & Feel – search results customizable using CSS or XSLT stylesheets. Can also be delivered as XML

Automatic Generation of Browsable Categories using Category metadata in feeds and documents

Built-in Crawlers to index HTTP, HTTPS, File System, RSS and Atom Web Feed content

Built-in file serving of documents in File System Collections without URL mapping

Support for indexing content through Proxy Servers

Selective indexing of sections of HTML pages using <noindex> </noindex> or <!–stopindex–> <!–startindex–> tags

Protected Content – crawlers can index content protected with Basic HTTP and Form-Based Authentication

Reporting – real-time reporting with weekly, daily and hourly top queries and zero match queries for upto 3 months

On-Demand & Scheduled Indexing of content

Check for duplicate documents during indexing

Addition and Deletion of individual documents from the index

Disable stemming for individual indexes

Supported Languages

SearchBlox can index content in 37 languages

Arabic

Bengali

Chinese(Simplified)

Chinese(Traditional)

Czech

Danish

Dutch

English

Estonian

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Gujarati

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Italian

Japanese

Kannada

Korean

Latvian

Lithuanian

Malayalam

Norwegian

Polish

Portuguese

Russian

Romanian

Slovak

Slovenian

Spanish

Swedish

Tamil

Telugu

Thai

Turkish

Supported File Formats

HTML

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

PDF

Text

RTF

More coming soon…

What's New in SearchBlox 6.4

Added the ability to AutoDetect and index text files without relying on the file extension

New file name field added to the XML search results

Fixed MS Office documents indexing in SearchBlox Server packages

Fixed HTTPS indexing in SearchBlox Server packages

Fixed character encoding for foreign characters in the basic search form

Fixed issue with viewing emails indexed from PST files

What's New in SearchBlox 6.3

Index Microsoft Office 2007 and OpenOffice documents

Display document filenames when viewing documents indexed on local file systems

Fixed issue with search results sort direction

Fixed issue with document indexing using Custom collections

What's New in SearchBlox 6.2

Indexing Outlook PST files with attachments

SearchBlox is happy to announce the release of Version 6.2 which includes the ability to index and search Outlook PST files including attachments contained within the emails. With the exponential growth of emails within every organization, finding the right information within your emails and attachments is challenging and time consuming. SearchBlox aims to simplify the process of finding information across your email archives, documents, websites and rss feeds.

Key features of SearchBlox 6.2:

No Outlook Client/Application required for indexing PST files

Indexes attachments connected to each message

View email messages right within SearchBlox

Search for information within the headers

Concept searching across your emails, documents, websites and feeds

No limit to the number of search collections

Index your collections in parallel to speed up the process of finding information

SearchBlox enables you to quickly deploy search for websites, intranets, local search and eDiscovery within a matter of minutes

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Pricing: SearchBlox Bronze Support 1 Year Bronze Support Contract (1 Named Contact, Email support, 12 Incidents per year, 24 hour response time (M-F 9am to 5pm EST)), SearchBlox Silver Support 1 Year Silver Support Contract (3 Named Contacts, Email support, 36 Incidents per year, 8 hour response time (M-F 6am to 6pm EST)), SearchBlox Gold Support 1 Year Gold Support Contract (5 Named Contacts, Email and Phone support, 60 Incidents per year, 4 hour response time (24/7), 4 hours per month development help and priority bug fixes)

Evals & Downloads: Read the SearchBlox User Guide, Read the SearchBlox End User License Agreement, Download SearchBlox for Windows (32bit), Download SearchBlox for Windows (64bit), Download SearchBlox for Mac OS X, Download SearchBlox for Unix, Linux (32bit), Download SearchBlox for Unix, Linux (64bit), Download SearchBlox WAR File

Operating System for Deployment: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Sun Solaris 10, Sun Solaris 9, HP-UX 11.x, IBM AIX 6.x, Linux Kernel V2.6.x, FreeBSD, MacOS 10.6, MacOS 10.5, Mac OS X

Product Type: Application

Application Servers: Oracle WebLogic Server 10.0, Oracle WebLogic Server 9.0 (formerly BEA), Oracle WebLogic Server 8.1 (formerly BEA), Oracle WebLogic Server 7.0 (formerly BEA), IBM WebSphere (TM), JBoss (TM) 3.0.x, JBoss (TM) 4, Oracle Application Server 10g, Oracle Application Server 9i, Sun ONE Application Server 6.5

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