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Search Tools Product Report

F3DSearch

Product Information

Price: $299 (Includes installation and 30 days support.)
Platform: Perl on Unix or Windows.

Features

• Designed for topical portals; hybrid search engine and directory.
  
• Robot crawler follows links to discover pages. Can handle frames.
  
• Stores index in specialized database.
  
• Boolean AND, OR, NOT and other search functions.
  
• Special relevance algorithm, with override option.
  
• Classification and categorization of results.
  
• Scales up to about 20,000 URLs.
  
• Customizable templates for search and directory pages.

Examples

• Find:it - Sample site created by Simiax to showcase F3DSearch (watch out for popup windows!)