Platforms: all Internet-accessible web servers Prices:
Free: Results pages will display advertising. No fixed page limit up to 32MB of HTML.
Personal: 250 pages, $5 per month with infrequent indexing and low-priority support.
Small Site: 500 pages, $9 per month.
Economy: 5,000 pages, $19 per month.
Standard: 1,000 pages, $19 per month with daily reindexing, customized results pages, and priority email support.
Enterprise: 2,500 pages, $39 per month.
Enterprise Plus: 5,000 pages, $79 per month.
High capacity and custom: Contact company.
Special Features
Setup wizards are easy to use
Allows you to index multiple sites
Can exclude URLs with wildcards in the path.
Indexes PDF, RTF, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Sun Star Office, Open Office, and Open Document (OASIS) file formats.
Indexes pages protected by simple password access control.
Handles complex links nicely.
Adjustable spider speed to avoid overloading slow sites and quickly index
fast sites.
Parallel indexing of multiple servers (paid versions only)
The search form lets users choose to match "any words" or "all
words".
Allows phrase search, Boolean operators, and wildcards
Includes links to site map, "what's new" page and Findia.net
web search
Uses a simple term frequency relevance ranking algorithm.
Allows search admins to add relevance weight to URLs and directories, with wildcards in the path
Template option provides results page customization with any HTML layout
Search reporting, interactive and emailed, with numbers of queries per day and month, top 50 keywords for the last month, recent queries with live links to the search engine.
Indexing reports with lists of URL crawling activity and actual pages in search engine.
Server farm with redundant servers, load balancing, dedicated NOC.
Reviews and Articles
Implementing Site Search with FreeFindDotNet Zone
:
May 4 2005
by
Zac Van Note A short free intro to a pay article about setting up FreeFind site search.
FreeFind.com
- customizable resultsMay 21, 2001 by Philip Stripling
Thorough description of the experience of installing and running the FreeFind
search engine and coverage of the features. High points include the speed
of signup response by email, associated features such as site map and content
monitors, clear directions, excellent results customizing options, quick crawling
and indexing of sites and reasonable results. Problems were: default query
requiring all search terms matched does not indicate how many other pages
have some search terms; result pages do not have links back to the originating
site by default; banner ads with transparent backgrounds can look ugly on
colored pages; search result items show extract text from the top of the pages
rather than more useful content; search reports are "rather basic".
Finding:
Site SearchPC Magazine, January 31, 2001 by Troy Dreier
Describes features of Atomz Search with praise for
indexing, search forms, relevant results pages, hit highlighting and customization.
Would prefer more reporting archives. For free search for sites over 500 pages,
recommends FreeFind, praising its indexing scheduling and notification,
What's New page, and emailed simple search reports, but faults its many wizard
screens and problems with search results.
SearchTools Review of Remote
Search ServicesSeptember 27, 1999 (updated October 2, 2000) by Avi
Rappoport Thorough discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of using remote
search services, how well their indexing robots handle standards and links,
search and relevance ranking features, search features, results customization,
maintenance and reporting.