The Zoom Search Engine is a free package that allows web developers to add an industrial-strength custom search to their website in a matter of minutes. It is an extremely easy-to-use application that requires no complicated server-side set-up procedures. It can also be used to create search engines for intranets, CDs and DVDs as well.
Zoom is capable of serving up to 300 queries a minute and it can index and search 1000s of web site domains in a single index. Developers who choose to upgrade to the Enterprise Edition will be able to index up to 1 million pages.
Zoom allows searches into DOC, PDF, PPT, XLS, RTF and WPD files and is capable of indexing SWF and FlashPaper files. In addition, Zoom now supports indexing/searching of the meta-data in MP3 and various image file formats. See the Zoom website for a complete list of supported file formats.
The Zoom Search Engine will index files in either spider or offline mode. Indexing options include incremental index, simultaneous Broken link detection, content filtering, flexible scanning and skipping options.
NEW:
# Fixed issue with Link Back URLs containing GET parameters (e.g. "mysearch.PHP?id=35") when appending Zoom parameters for features such as pagination links.
# Fixed bug with ASP script not adding PDF highlighting parameter ("#search=blah") if the PDF extension is not in lowercase.
# Fixed bugs in CGI for Custom Meta Fields of "Text" type using "Exact match". This was not always matching correctly.
