Zoom Search Engine

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)