Thunderstone Blog: Customized Search Engine & Search Software

You don't need to be a big business to get quality service. While the Google Mini was discontinued by Google, Thunderstone still takes care of small- and medium-sized businesses in need of a search appliance by upgrading your old option.

Out With the Old Search Appliance and In With the New

You shouldn't be left out in the cold because your old search appliance was discontinued. Our products are designed with the flexibility to meet your needs. The Thunderstone Search Appliance benefits your organization through:

• Increased website ROI
• Reduced customer service costs
• Increased productivity
• Customized configuration and integration

Customers that upgrade to the Thunderstone Search Appliance will receive assistance from our experts during the transition so that you can see the difference for yourself. We also set you up with a 30-day money back guarantee in case the search appliance isn't for you.

Search Appliance Solutions from Thunderstone

We've worked with customers of all shapes and sizes, ranging from government entities to businesses. Google may not cater to smaller organizations, but our premier search appliances can help your business get the results it needs. Contact us online or give us a call at 216-820-2200 for more information about upgrading to Thunderstone.

CLEVELAND, OH, November 2, 2015 — Improving the quality of search for intranet, public facing websites and aggregator sites -- Search Appliance Version 15 is here.

New crawl features include

Performance improvements indexing many sites at once

If you are creating a search that indexes many different websites the performance of the indexing has been improved. This will allow for more frequent indexing of such indexes.

MIME type enforcement

When crawling across many sites you may find that the web server may still return content that does not match the Mime Types requested. The setting will now be enforced by the crawler, which can help eliminate a lot of unwanted content from a crawl.

Client Certificate option

The crawler can be given a client SSL certificate to use when crawling HTTPS sites, allowing crawling of sites that use client SSL certificates for authentication.

New search features include

Quotes for Literal option

Allows you to change the meaning of quoting a search term from creating a phrase that is still subject to the normal thesaurus, word form and other linguistic processing to searching for exactly what you typed in, although still case-insensitive.

Improved HTML Highlighting

Lets users see the results in the original HTML for better contextual information with support for more complex HTML.

Availability

Search Appliance Version 15 is available to all Search Appliance and Parametric Search Appliance customers who have a current maintenance plan by following the menu System / System Setup / Update Software.

For 34 years Thunderstone Software has been dedicated to providing the best search solutions possible to government, corporate, and non-profit customers, with exceptional service and devotion to finding the right solution for the customer.

For further information call +1 216-820-2200, visit www.thunderstone.com.

Not all websites search needs are the same. A custom solution may be needed to handle your searching needs. Thunderstone's TEXIS can provide you with a full text search engine that will give you the power you need to handle your internal searches.

What Exactly is TEXIS?

TEXIS is a fully-integrated full text search engine. That makes TEXIS a flexible option that works with numerous integrated applications, including:

• message profiling and handling
• image library management
• help-desk support
• online news retrieval
• business intelligence
• research libraries
• litigation support
• Internet retail operations

TEXIS is powerful search engine option that can handle 10,000 records and more with an English language vocabulary of 250,000 words, plus phrase concept associations for natural language queries. In fact, TEXIS is the core technology for our other products, as it encompasses database and search engine capabilities.

What Makes it Different from Other Search Engines?

The key for TEXIS is versatility and customization. TEXIS isn't limited to website or fileserver searches; it can be tailored to do even more, giving you an option that be customized to be as powerful as you need it to be. TEXIS is the only search engine with a Structured Query Language configuration. This provides you with added benefits and advantages when it comes to complicated search requirements.

Fully-Integrated Full Text Search Engines from Thunderstone

Some of our customers use TEXIS as a search engine, others need it as an e-commerce system. Our TEXIS technology can be customized to fit your needs, so don't be afraid to tell us what you need and we'll be happy to work with you.Contact us online or give us a call at 216-820-2200 for more information on how TEXIS from Thunderstone can benefit you.

CLEVELAND, OH — Making it even easier to integrate high quality search into your website -- Webinator Version 13 is here.

New features include:

• Query Autocomplete, guides your users to the search they want
• HTML Highlighting, lets users see the results in the original HTML for better contextual information
• Expanded XML/SOAP API allows integration of administrative interface
• And much more: see the Webinator home page for full details

For 34 years Thunderstone Software has been dedicated to providing the best search solutions possible to government, corporate, and non-profit customers, with exceptional service and devotion to finding the right solution for the customer.

For further information call +1 216-820-2200, visit www.thunderstone.com.

Increase sales and reduce customer service calls when your customers quickly and easily find the products they need.

CLEVELAND, OH — Thunderstone Software LLC announces the Thunderstone Catalog Search solution designed so all kinds of business, from manufacturers, industrial supply and other B2B suppliers to online web stores can boost sales with enhanced search capabilities.

• Query auto-complete providing suggestions as you type, often showing the desired product with a few keystrokes
• Full catalog import allows searching and faceting on any attribute
• Automatically select facets based on search results
• Highly configurable search results order, using one or more of: relevance, popularity, rating, price, profit, "featured", any other product attribute, e.g. size or capacity
• Preconfigured searches on SEO friendly pages
• Analytics integration
• Configurable search result styles including grid and list, which can include pictures and "Add to Cart" links.

The Thunderstone Catalog Solution can be delivered in a variety of ways to suit the customer, include a hosted SaaS solution, virtual appliance, hardware appliance or software. Each comes with Thunderstone’s Head Start Assistance which ensures a successful deployment, and Investment Protection Program so as your needs grow the solution can be scaled up without starting over with a new solution.

To find out more about the Thunderstone Catalog Solution call +1 216 820 2200, Monday - Friday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Eastern Time, or visit www.thunderstone.com/catalog. After an initial needs analysis you can try the solution for 30-days with your own catalog to see how it can enhance your web based catalog.

For over 30 years Thunderstone Software has been dedicated to providing the best search solutions possible to government, corporate, and non-profit customers, with exceptional service and devotion to finding the right solution for the customer.

For further information call +1 216-820-2200, visit www.thunderstone.com/catalog or email