By Lee Sykes
November 2008
Xepient Solutions Open-SearchEngine for DotNetNuke v3.1 to 4.x (for DNN4.6+ the package contains a separate installation file)
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
Purchasing
This module is available to purchase from snowcovered.com
Open-SearchEngine – PA ... $69.50
Open-SearchEngine – Source ... $169.50
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