DotNetNuke Module Directory

This is an independent review of Xepient Solutions Open-SearchEngine 2.0. The review looks at the module for its features, usability, functionality, ease of use, stability, value for money.

According to Xepient, Open-SearchEngine provides DotNetNuke with a true enterprise search engine capable of indexing html content as well as documents from multiple sites and / or physical directories.

Key Features:

• Based on Lucene.net, includes a true web spider
• Capable of multi threaded indexing of any site, DNN or not
• Does not rely on database to index content
• Indexing of PDF files and Office documents
• Search results can be limited to a site that is indexed and by security role
• Search spider can impersonate security roles to index otherwise unavailable content
• Compliance with ‘no follow’ the spider will not follow and index those links
• Spider can index the content of a folder to index all of its documents directly
• Automatic exclusion of specified file types
• Automatic exclusion of anonymous modules, prevents duplicate results from page such as the Terms and Privacy pages
• Search Input and Results display can be configured and styled
• Search Input Skin Object included
• Text can be localized

This is an independent review of Venexus Search Engine and Software Collection. The review looks at the module for its features, usability, functionality, ease of use, stability, value for money.

The focus in this review is the Venexus search module. Venexus sell their modules all in one package as a software collection, so we will also touch upon the software collection and the additional functions that you can implement with the Venexus modules.

Key Features:

• Custom Crawler using iPortable interface, traditional URL web spider, RSS aggregation
• Global Crawler
• Indexing of PDF files and Office documents
• Full-Text Indexing in SQL Server
• Smart Caching
• Allow users to add RSS feeds
• RSS feeds for search results
• RSS feed of latest items indexed
• Blog and feed aggregator pinging
• Search box can be configured and styled
• Portal (site) or web search
• Keyword highlighting
• Social Bookmarking