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Features — Search Types
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Searching Multiple Data Sources
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Federated searching or distributed searching provides integrated searching of multiple data repositories across a network. |
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Spider lets you index local and remote web-based data, including both static and dynamic data, and public-access and secure sites. |
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Basic
Search Types
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Natural language searching lets you enter a "plain English" (or any other international language) unstructured search request. |
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Phrase searching
finds phrases like: due process of law. |
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Boolean operators
like and/or/not can join words and phrases: due
process of law and not (equal protection or
civil rights). |
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Proximity searching
finds a word or phrase within "n" words
of another word or phrase: apple pie w/38
peach cobbler. |
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Directed
proximity searching
finds a word or phrase "n" words
before another word or phrase: apple
pie pre/38 peach cobbler. |
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Phonic searching
finds words that sound alike, like Smythe in
a search for Smith. |
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Stemming finds
variations on endings, like applies, applied, applying in
a search for apply. |
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Numeric range
searching finds any number between two numbers,
such as between 6 and 36. |
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Macro capabilities
make it easy to include frequently used items
in a search request. |
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Wildcard support
allows ? to hold a single letter place, and
* to hold multiple letter places: apple*
and not appl?sauce. |
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Regular expressions support provides a way to search for combinations of characters. |
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Digit character matching enables searching for patterns of numbers. |
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Unicode support allows for searching of all Unicode-based international languages, including support for "right to left" languages and special options for Asian character handling. |
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Fuzzy
Searching
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Fuzzy
searching uses a proprietary algorithm to find
search terms even if they are misspelled. |
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Search
fuzziness adjusts from 0 to 10 so you can fine-tune
fuzziness to the level of OCR or typographical
errors in your files. |
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A
search for alphabet with a fuzziness
of 1 would find alphaqet; with a fuzziness
of 3, it would find both alphaqet and alpkaqet. |
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Fuzziness
is not built into the index, so you can vary
fuzziness at the time of each search. |
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Concept
/ Synonym / Thesaurus Searching
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Concept
searching lets you look for fast and
find quick, speedy, etc. |
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dtSearch
offers variable levels of automatic synonym
expansion based on a comprehensive semantic
network of the English language. |
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You
can also add your own thesaurus terms. |
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Combining
Search Types
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Nearly
all search types are combinable. |
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You
can make your search request as complex as
you want. |
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The
dtSearch product line can instantly search
terabytes of text across a desktop, network,
Internet or Intranet site. |
dtSearch
products also serve as tools for publishing,
with instant text searching, large document
collections to Web sites or CD/DVDs. |
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over
two dozen indexed, unindexed, fielded and full-text
search options |
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highlights
hits in HTML, XML and PDF, while displaying
embedded links, formatting and images |
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converts
other file types — word processor, database,
spreadsheet, email and full-text of email attachments,
ZIP, Unicode, etc. — to HTML for display
with highlighted hits |
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built-in Spider adds
a third-party or other Web site (public, secure
content, password accessible, etc.) to your searchable
database |
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Spider supports
Web-based content (HTML, PDF, XML, etc.) as well
as dynamically-generated content (ASP.NET, MS CMS,
SharePoint, etc.) |
| General supported file types |
| SQL and similar data sources |
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