Version History

Product improvement is always on going, customers receive minor version updates for free.

Improvements in v3.1 (free to v1, v2 and v3 customers)

• Substantial improvement in PDF indexing performance (CPU and memory usage)
• Fixed bugs relating to image based search buttons
• Improved HTML output standards compliance.
• Configuration.MaxDocumentSizeToIndex has been added to allow very large documents to be skipped during indexing. By default it is set to 30MB which means that files larger than this will not be indexed.

Improvements in v3.0

• Added wildcard search support, eg. "excel*" or "*ment" or "*read*".
• File-system based document importing
• Plug-in 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
• Plug-in 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 add-to/alter prescribed suggestions.

Improvements in v2.2 (free to v1 and v2 customers)

• 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 add-to/alter prescribed suggestions.
• Added multilingual spelling dictionary

Improvements in 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(PRO)

Improvements in v2.0 (free to v1 customers)

• Pro edition released
• Content / Location categorization added. (PRO)
• Administration web app. added. (PRO)
• Windows Service (periodic rebuilds) added. (PRO)
• 'Did you mean' spelling suggestions. (PRO)
• New FeaturedResults control added.
• Crawl/build log window added showing web-site errors.
• Build index operation memory use reduced.
• Crawl depth setting added.
• Unhyphenated word forms also searched. (eg. "web-site" now yields results containing "web site").

Improvements in 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).
• Support for (and example of) merging disparate result DataSets added.
• 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 web-site links.

Improvements in v1.2

• Added support for user pressing 'Enter' key inside search box.
• Added properties to control next/prev page link texts.
• SearchResult ItemCreated events added.
• Frames web-site support added (crawling and indexing).
• Added PathMatchesToBeIncluded to allow only URLs with matching substrings to be indexed.
• Property added to handle error page redirects.
• Crawl start URL is persisted by Index Management tool for added convenience.

Improvements in v1.1

• Forms Authentication support, enabling the crawler and indexer to work with web applications that require a user to logon - please see user guide.
• Windows Integrated Authentication support - enabling the crawler and indexer to crawl web applications where Integrated Authentication is enabled under IIS.
• Crawler now warns users if the start URL is invalid or cannot be read (404 etc).
• Support for international encodings in addition to Unicode/UTF-8.
• Additional API exposure allows subclasses of SearchAgent to be used.
• Support for non English search expression operators (eg. "UND" and "ODER" for "AND" and "OR").

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