Search Appliance

Quickly add high quality search results to an internal or external site. The Thunderstone Search Appliance is available as a plug-and-play device or virtual machine that combines the simplicity of a hosted service with the security and performance of a local solution.

• Unlimited collections provide separate searches for different communities, websites or topics.
• Fast response with the ability to handle 20+ queries per second, more than enough for peak times.
• Large capacity with models to handle from 20,000 to tens of millions of documents in a single device, and even more with custom configurations.
• Preconfigured to your needs to be ready to go as soon as you plug it in.
• Crawls any number of web servers by combining all content needed into one or more collections.
• Indexes PDFs, JavaScript and Flash/Shockwave content and links to ensure all website content is indexed.
• Crawls a variety of server types to index data served by HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, Gopher or your file server.
• Duplicate detection to index only one copy of identical documents.
• A remove common option automatically removes header and footer information.
• Include/exclude tags allows choosing which portions of web pages are indexed, so template text can be ignored.
• Insert a single page to the index at any time to keep it current.
• DataLoad API allows data to be pushed into the appliance.
• Categories of content can be defined to allow for finer control over searches.
• Relevance rank is controlled through five separate knobs to determine how search results are ranked.
• Predefined HTML templates enable easy creation of the search interface.
• XML stylesheet support allows for creation of custom user interfaces using standard XSL transformations.
• Spell check corrects query misspellings using your vocabulary.