SearchBlox

SearchBlox is an out-of-the-box Enterprise Search Solution for managing search fields/features.

The entire system is actually quite easy to deploy, providing a large number of search-related management tools.

There's also a visual interface for managing the search engine, feature usually found with CMS or forums, not with a search engine of this kind.

This administration dashboard really comes into handy, when needing quick changes to the search engine's core and functionality.

What is new in this release:

• Visualization tool to create, share and embed text analysis
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to search text within images using Tesseract
• Fast Web Collection and Fast File Collection for indexing large volumes of documents and websites
• Support for EML, MSG and Microsoft Exchange Server
• Support for searching compressed formats like zip and tar files

What is new in version 8.2.1:

• New features:
• Advanced Integration Module for indexing connect from Alfresco, CMIS Servers, Documentum, Dropbox, Email, FileNet, GridFS, Hadoop File System, Jira, Meridio, Sharepoint and Wiki
• JSON Indexing API
• Negative facet filtering for drill down of search results
• Java 8 Support
• Featured Results checkbox for Select All results
• Bug fixes:
• Resolve Non-english indexing issue
• Resolve stemming issue
• Resolve Featured Results keyword url space issue
• Resolve issue with cname parameter in regular search
• Resolve non-english character display issue
• Resolve issue with Delete All collections button

What is new in version 8.2:

• New features:
• Advanced Integration Module for indexing connect from Alfresco, CMIS Servers, Documentum, Dropbox, Email, FileNet, GridFS, Hadoop File System, Jira, Meridio, Sharepoint and Wiki
• JSON Indexing API
• Negative facet filtering for drill down of search results
• Java 8 Support
• Featured Results checkbox for Select All results
• Bug fixes:
• Resolve Non-english indexing issue
• Resolve stemming issue
• Resolve Featured Results keyword url space issue
• Resolve issue with cname parameter in regular search
• Resolve non-english character display issue
• Resolve issue with Delete All collections button

What is new in version 8.1.5:

• New features:
• Amazon S3 and Google Drive collection types
• Bulk download of file system collection files after a search query
• More Like This search query to find similar content
• Support for Robots and Canonical Meta Tags on HTML page
• Import/Export of SearchBlox configuration
• Changed:
• Remove start and end date requirement for featured results
• Bugfix:
• Resolve proxy server and form authentication issue for HTTP collection
• Resolve issue with search speed with faceted search plugin
• Resolve large document indexing issue for file system collection

What is new in version 8.0:

• New feature:
• Twitter, CSV and MongoDB collection types
• Business user access to the Admin console
• Re-designed Admin interface for 1-click activity
• Ability to implement security with Apache Shiro
• Enhanced Analytics with Content Cloud
• Boosting of Collections
• Bugfixes:
• Resolve File System collection issue for accented characters
• Fixes for faceted search plugin
• Resolve issue for indexing speed improvement
• Resolve mapping issue for multi-word facet values

What is new in version 7.6 Build 1:

• Resolve issue with alpha sorting for documents with blank space in title
• Resolve File system collection indexing and search issue for non-English languages
• Resolve issue with German umlaut in Featured results
• Resolve issue with repetition in autosuggest feature
• Resolve issue with start date and end date in custom filters

What is new in version 7.5 Build 1:

• Closed issue with unauthenticated active content uploads.
• Closed issue with vulnerability to unauthenticated search collection database
• password compromise.
• Closed issue with vulnerability to unauthenticated file overwrite.

What is new in version 7.4 Build 1:

• New feature:
• Alert functionality
• Tag cloud in faceted search
• Top clicked documents in faceted search as well as dashboard in admin
• Bugfix:
• Resolve issue with & filter param
• Resolve issue with SQL query with mapping to content
• Resolve issue with title search not working
• Resolve issue with autosuggest servlet

What is new in version 7.3 Build 1:

• New feature:
• Support for crawling Google sitemap in HTTP Collection
• API support for Add and Delete of new Custom Collections
• Synonym mapping file for each collection
• Bugfix:
• Resolve issue with fontbox.jar conflict for PDF indexing
• Resolve issue with activation of Featured Results
• Resolve issue with add/update/status for HTTP collection within the admin console

What is new in version 7.2 Build 1:

• New feature:
• Support for indexing databases (MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server)
• Auto Suggest with support for phrases
• Bugfixes:
• Resolve issue with refresh timestamp within admin console
• Resolve issue with file system to url mappings
• Resolve issue with context output from PDF files

What is new in version 7 Build 1:

• Schema-less Faceted Search with ready to use UI plugin
• Index sharding and replication
• 3x indexing and search performance improvement

What is new in version 6.4 Build 2:

• Resolve issue with viewing of emails indexed from PST files.

What is new in version 6.4 Build 1:

• New features:
• Autodetect and index text files without relying on file extension.
• Filename field in XML search results.
• Bugfixes:
• Resolve MS Office documents indexing in SearchBlox Server packages.
• Resolve HTTPS indexing in SearchBlox Server packages.
• Character encoding for foreign characters in the basic search form.