Zoom is a software package that creates a search engine for your website, intranet, or DVD. It provides fast and powerful full-text searching by indexing your website in advance with an user friendly desktop application that allows you to configure and index your site, from the convenience of your Windows computer.
You can see Zoom in action via the search box at the top of this very page or on our search page. Our product tour and screenshots pages shows you how easy it is to setup and install search on your own website. You can also visit other Zoom users' websites from our example sites list.
Note: You can use either Zoom For Windows or Zoom for Mac to create search engines for a Linux web server. The Server License however allows you to index from the Linux web server itself, and it can be used on any number of machines within an organisation.
I live in California and am thinking of sending my driver's license pic to remove me from the database, but the paranoid part of me kind of doesn't want them to have my ID on file! (I did try one of the copycat search engines, and it found 6-7 photos of me despite the fact that I've always tried very hard to keep pics off the internet -- never had a facebook account, don't post selfies to Instagram, etc. One was in the audience of a book signing -- the author took a pic of the crowd, and there I was.)
After stumbling on a new kind of search engine for faces, we called privacy journalist Kashmir Hill. She\u2019s been reporting on the very sudden and unregulated rise of these facial search engines. Here\u2019s the story of the very first one, the mysterious person who made it, and the copycats it helped spawn.
I had the good fortune to be interviewed by national treasure Aaron Lammer on the Longform podcast. It was fun to get a chance to talk about our show and how we make it. If you\u2019ve ever wondered how we make this for you most weeks, or how we pick the questions we run after, we got into all that.
I'm looking for a good open source (with LGPL or a permissive license) indexing engine for a node.js application, something like Lucene. I'm looking for in-process indexing and search and am not interested in indexing servers like Sphinx or Solr.
Can you explain why you're not interested in using an external index? For full text search I always revert to using PostgreSQL's full text indexing capabilities - it's very fast, indexing doesn't require a full-index-update (like Solr does), and results are returned faster than Lucene based solutions (such as Elastic Search).
Edit: Not sure what kind of speed you're looking at for in/out of process, but our PostgreSQL database can do 100k queries per second without breaking a sweat, and it's not even on SSDs. Perhaps you're over-thinking your performance needs - after all once you need to go to multiple nodes (or using cluster to take advantage of all CPUs) you will need to dump in-process anyway.
So in Experience Builder, the user has the ability to turn on the search option/tool on the map (not talking about the search widget). This search tool is linked to a geocoder(s). Currently when you search for an address it zooms to a scale shown below in the screenshot.
Now my question is, is there a way to modify the zoom level when using this search in Experience Builder?
Current output:
However, there seems to be no way for customization of this search (telling from the screenshot it is a locator search). I believe the only workaround is to customize it in dev edition to change the scale
It turns you can actually edit the Zoom level of the map search tool in Experience Builder which is actually tied to the extent set in Map Viewer. This can be done by changing the extent box size under item details page settings.
I have been using FrontLook Site Search Engine for quite a few years now, first with FrontPage 2003 and then Expression Web 1. I used the php version and it did an excellent job of providing a search engine for my viewers with no ads. It also did NOT require that the site be indexed in advance. As new versions of Expression Web were released, this add-in was not upgraded, so I kept version 1 of Expression Web installed so I could continue to use it.
I checked with the developer of FLSSE and was told it was no longer being developed or supported. So I was off to look for another search engine. Bing and Google both require your site already be indexed. Many of the free ones place ads on the results page BUT did not require that the site already be indexed. The free ones also have size limits.
I kept hearing Zoom Search by PassMark mentioned and decided to give it a try. The Free Edition is available for small personal websites (up to 50 pages). No advertising, nag screens, or time restrictions. I decided to give it a try although all of my sites with the exception of Geary Family Homestead were over the limit.
I experimented with the free version using just the basic default settings. I was impressed. I tweaked the configuration files some more and edited the search results page so that it matched the site.
The Zoom Indexer is a Windows application that scans your entire website and indexes the content and information it finds on each page. It will then create all the files you need to upload to your website, for you to have a running search engine.
The Offline mode indexes a local copy of your website, stored on your hard disk. This is effective for static web pages and allows the user to index a website without uploading it to a web server first. This mode can also be used for web pages that will be published on a disk or CD-ROM, where a web server will not be available and does not require an Internet connection.
Type the Base URL. This is the URL where your website will be published and uploaded to. This is used to determine the base location of each file on your website, so do NOT specify the filename of the main page (i.e. index.html, home.htm, etc.). Click Next.
Step 3: Select the type of files or file extensions you want to include in the index. Static web pages, dynamically generated pages, and zip files are available by default. Additional file types are available from the Scan options button on the Configuration tab. If you need to index PDF, DOC, XLS or similar binary files you will need to download and install the appropriate plug-in's. The Free Edition does NOT support the plugin. Click Next.
This is a list of the filename extensions that will be scanned by the indexer. If a file has an extension that is not in this list then it will be skipped. Note that each file extension must begin with a "." (dot) character or it will be ignored. Up to 50 extensions can be defined in this list. Since I am working with a static web site, I left the default selection which includes:
NOTE: With FrontLook Site Search Engine, you ticked the pages you wanted to include in the Search Results. With Zoom Search you exclude the files/folders you do not want to include in the Search Results.
Note that filenames and paths are case sensitive. Typically you would want to filter pages that the user should never be able to get to directly via the search function which would include such things as include pages, form confirmation and thank you pages.
Sometimes there are situations where you would want to stop a section of a page from being indexed. This may be common headers, footers, or navigation menus which appear on every page of your site. This can be accomplished by enclosing the unwanted section of the HTML document within the following tags: and . This is often used to exclude navigation bars and menus. Note however, that the hypertext links within a ZOOMSTOP and ZOOMRESTART section would still be followed in Spider indexing mode.
NOTE EXPRESSION WEB USERS: If you are using Expression Web and add the search code to your DWT, you should use an absolute path to the search script. An example of the search box placed as part of the menu can be seen on the left hand side Migrating From FrontPage to Expression Web and this site is now using Zoom Search.
This set of options allows you to modify the appearance of the search results. You can select or disable the elements that should be displayed per search result. Note the Preview pane at the bottom of the window gives you a representation of what your results may look like with your current selected settings.
NOTE EXPRESSION WEB USERS: You can attach the DWT to the Search Results page which is named search_template.html by default. Zoom Search embeds the styles it creates in the head section of the page. You will need to either move them to a separate external style sheet BEFORE you attach the DWT or add them to your current style sheet.
Once you have attached the DWT you will have to detach it in order to add the above line of code back into the search_template.html page as the body tag is part of a non-editable region. You also will need to test your search engine AFTER you have published and check the search results page to make sure it displays as you expect it to. I do NOT add the Zoom Search box to my DWT until I am certain everything is working as I expect and the Search Results looks like I want.
You should also be aware that if you tick Context description to be displayed, what displays is the surrounding words from the content of the page where the searched word was found. This may NOT be what you want.
EXAMPLE: If I search this site, for "site templates," the search results look like the image shown below. Because Site Template appears on every page of the site as part of the menu, every page is returned as a search result which is NOT what we want. Refer to the Skip options section as to how we can keep that from happening.
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