Thunderstone Blog: Customized Search Engine & Search Software

New search features include

Additional Login Form Flows

Multi step login forms are now supported by our Primer URL settings where there may be several steps required to login to the site, and the forms on intermediate pages may have dynamic or session specific information.

Improved Test Fetch Information

Test Fetch now provides additional information about the Primer URLs used, and response received to assist with setting up complicated login flows.

Metasearch Sorting

Meta search profiles now support sorting on two fields, which is commonly used by Parametric searches.

Other fixes

Miscellaneous other bug fixes and enhancements to the crawl and search interfaces.

Availability

Search Appliance Version 27 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.

Webinator Version 27 is available to all Webinator customers who have a current maintenance plan by contacting Thunderstone.

For 40 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.

New search features include

Keep/Ignore Selectors

Keep/Ignore Selectors are specified with a restricted CSS Selector syntax. The default is nav, header, footer. Previous Keep HTML settings are migrated to Ignore Selectors. This provides more flexibility in some cases than the Keep/Ignore HTML Strings (previously called Keep/Ignore Tags) setting.

RDFa/Mircodata Support

RDFa (meta property) and Microdata (meta itemprop) values are now available after fetching a document for use in Data From Field.

Best Bets API

Best Bets are now supported in the Dataload API, and are replicated along with other setttings.

Other fixes

Miscellaneous other bug fixes and enhancements to the crawl and search interfaces.

Availability

Search Appliance Version 25 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.

Webinator Version 25 is available to all Webinator customers who have a current maintenance plan by contacting Thunderstone.

For 40 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.

New features include

Rank Bias

Parametric profiles gain new capabilities to set a bias on a per document field using data from field rules.  This allow documents to be biased up or down in the search results, for example PDF results could be biased down, or documents with "Important" in a meta tag could be ranked higher.

Improvements

Content Repositories

Azure Blob Storage support was added for crawling content stored in Azure Blobs.

File Share Robustness

Network shares are remounted if needed at the start of a crawl.

Audit Logging

The ability to log all setting modifications was added to aid with auditing setting changes.

Other fixes

Miscellaneous other bug fixes and enhancements to the crawl and search interfaces.  See the announcement on the message board for full details.

Availability

Search Appliance Version 20 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.

Webinator Version 20 is available to all Webinator customers who have a current maintenance plan by contacting Thunderstone.

For 36 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.

New features include

Entity Recognition

Parametric profiles gain new capabilities to extract information from document text. Now even documents with no metadata can contribute terms to faceted navigation, via entity recognition. For example, a list of terms, e.g. cities or manufacturers, can be defined for extraction and then searched or grouped by. Or a regular expression can be crafted to match a specific pattern of data — e.g. a defined syntax for part or social security numbers. And the XML syntax for such entities is largely compatible with GSA syntax, making upgrading a snap.

Improvements

Dashboard Statisitics

Several new statistics have been added to help monitor activity, including the search rate, fetch rate, and document growth rate so you can identify problems that may arise in the future.

Unmount Shares

Network shares can now be unmounted without removing the settings.

XSS Protection fix

Browsers may have warned on the settings page about possible XSS problems.  There was no vulnerability in the appliance, and the settings were updated correctly, however now the XSS warnings no longer are triggered.

Other fixes

Miscellaneous other bug fixes and enhancements to the crawl and search interfaces including result counts and some REX expression handling.  See the announcement on the message board for full details.

Availability

Search Appliance Version 19 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.

Webinator Version 19 is available to all Webinator customers who have a current maintenance plan by contacting Thunderstone.

For 36 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.

New features include

Meta search profile biasing

In a meta (federated) search each profile can be given a weight for additional control over the output to favor certain backend profiles.

Canonical URL support

The crawler will now respect link rel="canonical" headers to index the canonical form of the URL.

Improvements

HTTPS/SSL Cipher support

More flexibility in specifying supported ciphers to let you balance security and older browser support.

Reject Rules always honored

Reject rules will now always be honored, so pages will be removed from the index on a refresh if they rules now exclude them, and robots.txt rules that block the base URL will still be kept.

Faceted search counts

Faceted search counts improved when estimated due to large number of results.

Other fixes

Miscellaneous other bug fixes and enhancements to the crawl and search interfaces.

Availability

Search Appliance Version 18 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.

Webinator Version 18 is available to all Webinator customers who have a current maintenance plan by contacting Thunderstone.

For 35 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.