It comes with support for Classic ASP, ASP.NET, JavaScript, PHP and CGI support in one package.
Configuration files allow to manage multiple search engines with ease.
Zoom Search Engine is a package for web developers to add an industrial-strength custom search engine to their website in a matter of minutes.
No complicated server-side setup procedures are needed, the user simply indexes and uploads from the convenience of a PC.
What is new in this release:
- We have optimized and refined Zoom V7 to index significantly more content (that's a 12x capacity increase!) and also index much faster than before (up to 5x performance gain).
- Along with many bug fixes, improvements for language support and one of the most comprehensive file format support.
What is new in version 7.0 build 1024:
- Improved ASP script tolerance for codepage conflict when embedded in wrapper script.
- Fixed bug with autocomplete not supporting Unicode.
- Fixed bug with UTF-8 filenames being corrupted when indexed as the document title.
- Fixed percent decoding in UTF-8.
- Fixed exact phrase searching bug for certain HTML and PPTX output.
- Fixed bugs with PST indexing (corrupt URLs, title and from addresses, X.400 format email addresses, header indexing).
- Added progress for autocomplete log file download.
- Moved autocomplete generation to core engine.
- Fixed crash bug for Excel file indexing.
What is new in version 7.0 build 1023:
- Improved ASP script tolerance for codepage conflict when embedded in wrapper script.
- Fixed bug with autocomplete not supporting Unicode.
- Fixed bug with UTF-8 filenames being corrupted when indexed as the document title.
- Fixed percent decoding in UTF-8.
- Fixed exact phrase searching bug for certain HTML and PPTX output.
- Fixed bugs with PST indexing (corrupt URLs, title and from addresses, X.400 format email addresses, header indexing).
- Added progress for autocomplete log file download.
- Moved autocomplete generation to core engine.
- Fixed crash bug for Excel file indexing.
What is new in version 7.0 build 1020:
- Improved ASP script tolerance for codepage conflict when embedded in wrapper script.
- Fixed bug with autocomplete not supporting Unicode.
- Fixed bug with UTF-8 filenames being corrupted when indexed as the document title.
- Fixed percent decoding in UTF-8.
- Fixed exact phrase searching bug for certain HTML and PPTX output.
- Fixed bugs with PST indexing (corrupt URLs, title and from addresses, X.400 format email addresses, header indexing).
- Added progress for autocomplete log file download.
- Moved autocomplete generation to core engine.
- Fixed crash bug for Excel file indexing.
What is new in version 7.0 build 1017:
- Added support for scheme relative base HREF URLs e.g. <base href='//www.mysite.com/'>
- Fixed crash (or freeze up) bug when indexing failed results from DOC processing.
- Added special spider handling of binary files when text extraction is disabled (file is not downloaded, check if exists).
- Fixed bug with file sizes not indexed in Offline Mode for some plugin formats (incl. PDF).
- Fixed crash bug with new URL escape code triggered during incremental indexing and certain URLs.
- Fixed bug with HTTP authentication.
- Fixed crash bug with certain XLS files.
- Fixed bug with incremental command line options
- Fixed bug with not auto uploading after incremental indexing.
- Fixed warning in PHP search script.
What is new in version 7.0 build 1010:
- Added indexing support for .gz, .tar and tar.gz files.
- Added progress message for search statistics report generator.
- Fixed bug with highlighting search terms in results when substring matching is enabled (or wildcard search) in all script platforms.
- Fixed bug with PHP search form dropdowns for custom meta fields selecting first value instead of 'All' upon initialization.
- Fixed bug with index log tab flashing in indexer GUI.
- Added error handling for Automatic Form Login URL being invalid (pages requiring redirect now get meaningful error message)
- Fixed crash bug with indexing MP3 files.
- Fixed bug with not extracting comments in MP3 files.
- Fixed bug with not being able to disable cookies support.
- Fixed bug with incremental indexing (loading existing index with HTML entities in URL)
- Fixed crash bug when indexing Excel files with many URL links.
- Fixed bug with 'Total words found' summary showing signed value.
What is new in version 7.0 build 1008:
- Fixed bug with forward slashes in URLs when indexing in Offline Mode.
- Fixed bug with not identifying ZIP files that have been misnamed when using the "Scan unknown files" feature.
- Fixed bug with DOC, PPT, XLS, etc. options being greyed out in the Wizard.
- Fixed bug with 'An entry in the extensions list... is an unsupported file format' error for some supported file formats.
What is new in version 7.0 build 1005:
- Added latin ligature option. "ij=ii" is no longer in the general ligature mapping.
- Added "-autorun" command-line option which runs indexing in current mode as specified by the .zcfg file.
- New internal DOC, XLS and PPT processing code. Much faster than previous plugin code.
- Fixed bug with pagedata structure in 64-bit.
- Fixed bug with not detecting indexer is running and prompting user before quitting.
- Fixed bug with not focing core engine to terminate/quit when window is closed before indexing finishes.
- Fixed bug with not closing shared memory when quitting before finishing.
- Fixed crash bug with command-line spider mode but mode specified in zcfg file is offline.
- Fixed crash bug if incremental but no start list.
- Fixed autorun indexing issues.
What is new in version 7.0 build 1001:
- Plugin timeout allows you to force abort processing a file if the plugin takes too long to complete (usually due to a corrupt or problematic file)
- Scan file with unknown extensions will analyse any unrecognized file extension and attempt to index it accordingly (e.g. can detect a JPEG that has been misnamed as a .bin, etc.)
- Results can now be sorted by Relevancy, Date (newest first) and Date (oldest first) with a user configurable default
- Index options for URL domain and URL path ("Configure"->"Indexing options"->"What to index")
- Can now be configured to index e-mail addresses (Word join rules: @ sign and dots)
- Email file formats now supported (.PST, .MBOX, .DBX, .EML, .MSG). Useful for Intranet search engines.
- Now indexing the URL (domain name) and the path (folder names) in the URL. ("Configure"->"Indexing options")
- Now supporting "site:" and "url:" search syntax, e.g. a search for "beagle site:mydogs.com" will search for all beagles on the mydogs.com domain only.
- Ensure the first 3 results come from different domains ("Configure"->"Search Page"). Useful for search engines indexing more than one site.
- Scan files with unknown extensions: Analyzes files of unrecognizable file extensions to determine how to index them. Useful on "deep searching" external web sites.
- Supports OpenOffice/KOffice/GoogleOffice, etc. files.
- Supports indexing meta data from AVI, WMV, MPG, RMV, FLV, MOV, QT, WAV files.
What is new in version 6.0 Build 1029:
- Fixed bug in PHP and ASP with deleted pages
- Fixed bug in ASP with Option Explicit support
- Fixed bug with skipped words not being stemmed (and thus did not match when stemming is enabled).
- Fixed bug with not following links on "Incremental add start points" operation.
- Added support for percent encoded file://D:/ or file:///D|/ style URLs.
- Increased plugin timeout durations.
What is new in version 6.0 Build 1028:
- Added filtering out of exclamation marks (!) in search query.
- Added error check for V7 configuration files (not supported in V6).
- Fixed bug with date times being 1 second off (causing 00:00:00 to end up being recognized as the previous day)
- Fixed bug with Content Filtered pages displaying the wrong skipped reason in the Log.
- Fixed bug with not saving the Link Target setting when it is over 15 characters in length.
What is new in version 6.0 Build 1027:
- Fixed bug with "Support single-case languages" in Indexer and PHP script.
- Added filtering out of exclamation marks (!) in search query.
- Added error check for V7 configuration files (not supported in V6).
- Fixed bug with date times being 1 second off (causing 00:00:00 to end up being recognized as the previous day)
- Fixed bug with Content Filtered pages displaying the wrong skipped reason in the Log.
- Fixed bug with not saving the Link Target setting when it is over 15 characters in length.
What is new in version 6.0 Build 1027:
- Fixed crash bug with exact phrase searching in CGI and ASP.NET Server Control.
What is new in version 6.0 Build 1026:
- Added support for <sup> and <sub> inline tags.
- Added support for <input name=Login> style tags (no quotation marks around name value)
- Added error reporting for ZLANG files detection.
- Added handling of slanted apostropohe (aka acute accent) character.
- Changed output of text sitemap (urllist.txt) to be without HTML entities.
- Fixed memory leaks in CGI and ASP.NET Server Control, particularly in the spelling suggestion feature.
- Fixed validation bug with <html> tag in search_template.html and search.html
- Fixed bug with "catch all" category.
- Fixed bug with space characters in Category patterns which were parsed incorrectly in Offline Mode.
- Fixed PHP/ASP/CGI bug with category summary not displaying the "Refine your search by..." heading if all results belonged in one category.
- Fixed bug in CGI where an empty entry in the ZLANG file will inherit the value preceding it.
What is new in version 6.0 Build 1025:
- Fixed crash bug with 64-bit Indexer not starting and a DLL error.
- Fixed bug with no skipped message for pages which were excluded because of the CRC duplication detection matched after filtering HTML tags.
- Built with new compiler environment and updated libraries.
What is new in version 6.0 Build 1024:
- Fixed ASP bug with multi-select Custom Meta Fields matching incorrectly and not displaying correctly in the search results.
- Fixed PHP bug with multi-select Custom Meta Field showing a warning.
- Added check for invalid URL type specified in externally created ZCFG files.
- Fixed memory leak in in ASP.NET server control.
- Fixed timing issues and various with Log window.
- Fixed memory leak when copying log to clipboard.
- Added check for invalid categories in configuration file preventing incremental indexing.
What is new in version 6.0 Build 1023:
- Fixed problem with content of DOC files being parsed as HTML leading to some text being filtered out and unnecessary "Suspected invalid HTML error" warnings for DOC files.
- Changed plugin execution timeout value to vary depending on filesize. This prevents very large files from hitting the original 60 second timeout limit.
- Fixed crash bug when determining a base URL while the user is entering a start spider URL in the "Start options" tab of the main window.
- Addressed XSS issue with PHP server environment variables.
- Fixed PHP bug with matching Custom Meta Fields of dropdown or multi-select types.
- Fixed PHP bug with dictline error.
- Fixed JavaScript bug when using UTF-8 encoding, pagination links and other feature links may cause additional "+" signs to appear in the search query.
- Fixed bug with Custom Meta Field window not allowing the change from an existing Text type field to a different type until the match method was set to "Exact match".
- Fixed crash bug with "Copy entire log to clipboard" from right-clicking in the Log tab due to long log entries.
- Fixed occasional crash bug when attempting to "Open URL in Browser" from right-clicking in Log tab.
- Fixed bug with Automatic Form Login that failed to find non-lowercase tags.
- Fixed crash bug with Automatic Form Login when a matching close tag is not found.
Requirements:
- Internet Explorer 5.5 or later
- At least 3 megabytes of available disk space
- 64 megs of memory (more memory is required to index larger sites)
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