Work with a web server management assistant with a built-in search engine. Detect various files on the selected drives and servers, check their status, position, location, size, and integration. Customize search forms and apply a variety of templates for handling content.
Boolean Search is a Mac OS X Web server application for searching the contents of files. Boolean Search can be employed as a search engine for a public website on theInternet, or a personal or group owned collection of files on your own computer or network. A widevariety of search criteria and customizable response pages makes Boolean Search a very flexiblealternative to Internet search engines or operating system services like Spotlight.Key Features
- Search forms andresults are highly customizable with the use of "templates," standard HTML and AppleScript.
- Generation of a "site index" which lists all the words contained in a file collection, and links to the files which contain them.
- Various query-based search methods are available: exact, partial, approximate, case sensitive, proximity, phrase, regular expression pattern matching, etc.
- A wide variety of "context summaries" of found documents are available, and files are viewable with search terms linked and highlighted.
- PDF, MS Word and RTF indexing.
- Spell-checking of queries and generation of new queries for the corrected terms (as in "Did you mean?)
- Boolean Search contains an integrated Web server so it can serve and process its own search forms.
- Interaction with the program using a Web browser and standard TCP/IP means you can either use Boolean Search on your own Mac-hosted Web site, or as a personal search engine right on your owncomputer (especially when used in conjunction with the Blue Crab Web crawler.)
- Supports multiple directories and provides the ability to find files by name, kind, date, type, etc. together with a content query for more targeted searching.
- Standard server realms support.
- Search directory administration includes settings for word break characters, stopwords, synonyms, variety of file filters, "last visit cookies."
- Customizable logging for each search directory.
- Automatic re-indexing and caching can be scheduled in the Preferences window.
- Optional browser-based administration enables remote configuration of the search directories.
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v3.3 [Jun 27, 2010]
- Added support for filenames up to 256 characters in length. This improves the display of file names when building the file information cache, and when displaying search results.
- The monitor window is always brought to the foreground when cache building commences.
