Search Tools Product Report

Spiderline - Remote Search Service

Product Information

Price: Pricing scheme ranges from $40/year to $3,200/year based on the maximum number of documents, available features, number of index crawls per month, and level of service. Higher page limits, search engine integration services and dedicated server solutions are also available.

Platform: Remote service, can index any Internet-accessible server.

Features

• Indexing of multiple servers and domains. Crawls can be performed on demand.
  
• Indexes HTML, Adobe Acrobat PDF, and Microsoft Word files, as well as image alt tags.
  
• Flexible indexing schedules.
  
• Indexes pages with session IDs and cookies.
  
• Indexes password-protected pages, and via HTTPS.
  
• Allows search admin to control speed of robot indexing spider.
  
• Search functions include Boolean synonym matching, soundex, stopwords, and stemming.
  
• Editable synonym and stopword lists.
  
• Custom weighting of words to determine search ranking.
  
• Search zones option.
  
• Results page interface is very configurable.
  
• XML results available.
  
• No advertising on search results.
  
• Hit highlighting in text snippets for search results.
  
• Indexing reports and email notification.
  
• Search reports and logs, including raw query logs, clickthrough tracking, and referrer reports.

Articles & Reviews

• Spiderline Searches Inward BotSpot: May 3, 2001 by Brian Proffitt
  
  Describes the value of remote search services, focusing on Spiderline service.


• Spiderline Web Crawler White-Paper Spiderline LLC: by Benjamin Benson
  
  A technical white-paper on the web spider used by Spiderline.

Examples

• Wells College - The Aurora, NY college site.
• BankPlus - A Mississippi bank chain.
• Lexington Medical Center - The site for a South Carolina medical complex.
• The City of Savannah - Official government site of Savannah, Georgia.
• Proficiency - Site for a company specializing in product data interoperability and engineering collaboration.