SearchInform

Starting the description of SearchInform from its interface may not be such a good idea. It’s better to start with the installation process, to be more precise from a small detail of that process: you can’t install the program without being connected to the Internet. The thing is, before you can run the program it requires a (free) user registration and sends all inserted data to the server. The developers probably took these precautions to prevent program piracy, though it didn’t help to make the installation process more convenient. 

The program interface is carried out considering all the common rules, although at first glance it looks a bit bulky.  When first using the program, interface seems too complicated, as sometimes it’s hard to remember in which menu or on which tab the needed option is. Although after first steps this interface doesn’t look that awfully complex anymore. The best thing to do would be to read help first.

Once you got a general grasp of the interface, you can start creating an index. The process is quite simple and even to an untrained eye indexing speed looks significantly higher that other search engines reviewed here. The numbers show that SearchInform is twice as fast as dtSearch and iSYS in indexing speed! The program took an exceptionally short 3 hours and 17 minutes to index 20 gigabytes. The size of the newly created index also wasn’t too large – 4.4 Gb, a 100 megabytes less that Google Desktop Search.

Aside from the standard files and folders the program also indexes electronic mail, databases (!) and other outside sources (DMS, CRM) as well as all of the file attributes. At the very beginning of indexing there’s an option of specifying the dictionary you want to use for the stemming search. Having created the index, when you try to conduct a trial document search, you might be confused since there are two types of search and you need to pick which one you need. As it’s already been mentioned above, the main thing is to read the help file in advance — then everything is clear. The program really can perform two types of search, that is phrase search and search for document with similar to the query content.

 

  

Unique similar search technology in our web search utility At present most of the potential customers simply have no clue that there is a web search tool for searching similar documents. The problems facing a corporate user can be solved nice and easy. And the name of the game is the SoftInform web search technologies. It is important, first of all, to inform the corporate user on SoftInform web search solution, its originality and strengths as compared to web search competitors, and second of all, to provide turn-key projects (examples) that would demonstrate the ease with which any challenge of corporate search and structuring information is solved by means of our web search technology.

20th of January SoftInform Company has released new version of full text search program SearchInform 1.8.02. New version has a number of useful changes, in particular has been made support of .ISO files, as well as new feature to .CSS files in native format.
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The SoftInform Company announces the release of a new version of its full text information search system SearchInform 1.7 and a price reduction for SearchInform Desktop Standard 1.7 by almost one half. Starting from November 1, the standard version of SearchInform Desktop will cost just $29.95.
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