Indexing

The basis of modern full text search technologies is represented by two fundamental processes: indexing of available information and processing queries with subsequent display of results. As regards indexing, any information retrieval application (whether it it a desktop full text search system, a corporate informational system or an Internet search engine) creates its own search area. In other words, it processes documents and creates an index of these documents (an organized structure that contains information on processed data). This very index is further used in by the search engine to quickly display a list of required documents. The rest of the process is not as simple in terms of technology, but in terms of use, it's quite user-friendly. Information retrieval application processes the query (by key phrase) and displays the list of documents containing this key phrase. Since the information is stored in a structured index, the query is processed much (dozens and hundreds times!) faster than in case of direct search (the selection of documents is based on the analysis of textual information in the index rather than on browsing through every file).

The full text search application displays found documents in the order of relevance, i.e., the similarity of the document to the query text. Various search technologies, undoubtedly, comprise various methods of searching and determining the relevance of the document (the number of key word "inclusions" and the frequency of mentioning it in the document, the ratio of these parameters to the general number of words in the document, the distance between the words of the query phrase in the files, and so on). These parameters serve as the basis for determining the "weight" of the document and, depending on this weight, the file ends up in the list of results in a certain position. With Internet-search the matter is even more complicated. After all, in this case many other factors have to be taken into account (for instance, Page Rank Google). However, this is the subject for a different article; therefore we will leave Internet alone for the time being.

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20th of January SoftInform Company has released new version of full text search program SearchInform 1.8.02. New version has a number of useful changes, in particular has been made support of .ISO files, as well as new feature to .CSS files in native format.
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The SoftInform Company announces the release of a new version of its full text information search system SearchInform 1.7 and a price reduction for SearchInform Desktop Standard 1.7 by almost one half. Starting from November 1, the standard version of SearchInform Desktop will cost just $29.95.
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