Search32

Search32

Search32 v.8.1 (what is new)
Anet's Text Retrieval Utility for Windows NT/2000/XP

Search32 Professional version is available. See the difference or click here to download.

Now with multilanguage support and built in HTML viewer

Great news for developers. API is available. Please read more about Search32 API and support and Anet Search Engine API

What is a "Search engine"?

Have you ever used Internet searching systems? Were you surprised at the speed with which these systems "scanned" the Internet finding files containing search-parameter words you entered?

"Why does my PC take longer to search a single hard disk than does Infoseek to search the whole Internet?".

Of course, Yahoo or Infoseek have very powerful computers.

But now, with Anet's Search32, you can extend the search power of your computer. Even a 386, running Windows 95 can compete with the speediest text retrieval systems!

Normally, using Find File from the standard Windows 95 package, your computer conscientiously rotates its hard disk and checks all the files word by word, what a long, time-consuming procedure.

Search32 text retrieval system provides you a special "search engine". Developed on Anet's unique algorithm, this engine, like those used by Yahoo and Infoseek, does not scan the whole disk. Instead, it browses preprepared "index files". These index files contain information about every word in every text file. Result? Superfast search results showing text strings and file names! Files easy to identify and open one by one.

Search32 from Anet.

There are several companies developing their own search engines. All of them provide comprehensive searches and some degree of speed. They all search preprepaired index files. However, several features make Anet's Search32 the outstanding text retrieval tool for you:

Fast, easy creation of index files. It takes only 90 seconds to create an index for 15 Mb of text files.
"I was impressed with the speed it makes indexes. It can create index file for the same time Windows 95 searches one phrase..." (Alexander E. Nikiforov)
The fastest update of index file. It takes less than half second to update index file of any size.
"I was amaized by the speed of index update. Unlike the other programs it changes index file just as you save your text file. You click on Save and index is fresh. It is always fresh!!!..." (German Antonov)
No file size limitation. Search32 indexes huge files, 10Mb or more.
Inexpensive. While our competitors call their programs "text retrieval systems" we call Search32 a utility and maintain the low price so that anyone might afford it.
"It's nagware, and it doesn't yet allow full proximity searches, but it's only $20 to register, and it can fairly well substitute for programs like Zyindex or Concordance that cost from $300 to $950. Talk about a great deal. The program allows you to index all your document files and then do almost instant text searches using boolean operators..." (Vincent DiCarlo)

Our Motivation

We are often asked,

"Why is Search32 so cheap? You can't regain the money you invested in development from selling each copy for only $20".

Well, the new version of Search 32 costs $39, but it is still the least expensive available.

We are not staking our corporate future on a text retrieval utility. Anet is developing more complicated, and more expensive, programs. Sometimes we extract a kernel from one of them and arrange it as a stand-alone product for wide distribution.

We like Search32. It is constantly improved and we provide technical support for our customers who buy it.

However, when you use Search32 please remember that there are a number of features not included in the current version which may be part of the future, or available in one of our other programs. Perhaps the features you most desire are already implemented in another Anet program.

A morphology support is added into Russian version of Search32. Now it is possible to find exact Russian words and their forms as well. For instance you can ask for "chield" and find "chield" and "children" or "go" - "went".

If your needs are unusual or extensive, have Anet customize programs especially for you .

Some technical details:

About indexes:

A user can work with many index files or indexes simultaneously. One can easily create, update and remove them.
When creating or updating an index, Search32 provides a browse screen for selection of text files to be included in the index.
If there are no vast changes in origin text files, index updating procedure takes significantly less time than creating a new index.
It is possible to index (and, of course, search) text files located in other computers connected through the Microsoft local network.

About search queries types:

Toggle between CASE SENSITIVE & CASE INSENSITIVE language sets

Search for words no longer than 32 symbols

Search for any particular word with precise spelling

Search for a group of matching words, specifying only the word part located at the beginning, at the middle or at the end of them. Example: bit* (bitmap), *bit* (arbitrary), *bit (inhibit)

Search for a combination of words joined with logical operations AND, OR and NOT. For example, it is easy to find all files with all entries of one particular word and with no entries of another word

About query results:

Almost instantaneous results for the great majority of queries

Supported formats

Both, Professional and Shareware versions have the same number of formats supported. But with Shareware version you can create indexes with up to 50Mb of text in PDF format. Professional version does not have such a limitation.
You can create index and search in the files of the following formats:

MS Word (DOC),
Plain text (TXT),
Web pages (HTML),
Adobe Acrobat (PDF),
XML formatted files:

Search in XML:
It is possible now to specify the names of XML elements that must contain a word or phrase you are looking for.
When search in index with XML formatted files the "Advanced" button appears on the Search tab of Search32. This button will call a dialogue that will show the structure of all indexed XML documents and you can use it to create a search query containing the names of XML elements.

Virtual Folders

Using virtual folders you can turn Search32 into a basic document management system.
When creating index it is possible assign a specific label (we call it "virtual folder") to the selected file of group of files that will be indexed. Later-on a user can narrow down the search within a single index by selecting the virtual folder he/she wants to search in. The name of virtual folder can be assigned in the dialogue "Add Files to be Indexed" callable with button "Browse" on the "Index" tab. When searching in the index that contains virtual folders user can call the dialoge with list of virtual folders with a button "Advanced" on the Search tab. Use this dialog window to compose the query to search in the virtual folders.

With the Shareware version of Search32 you can create only 3 virtual folders.

Professional version does not have such limitation.

Shareware vs. Professional

Starting from version 6.01 Search32 has two releases - Shareware and Professional

The Shareware version has similar functionality as a Professional version but with several restrictions:

1. Not more than 50Mb of text contained in PDF files can be indexed in Shareware version.
2. Not more than 3 virtual folders can be created in Shareware version

What is new in Search32:

Version 8.1

Interface modifications
This version has serious user interface modifications. We added a wizard for creating new and opening existing indexes. Some problems with indexing files located in multilevel archives were also fixed.

Version 7.6

Search32 on CD-Rom
This version can be run directly from CD-Rom without installation on a computer. All source files (including PDFs now!) together with indexes should be copied onto a CD-Rom as it is described in Search32 Help file.

Version 7.5

Tab “Search”
Show search results by portions:
In a tab “Options” it is possible to define how many records must be loaded in the search result view. Navigating between portions is possible with buttons on top of the search result window.

Tab "Indexes"
Filtering dictionary & checkbox "Use filtering dictionary" – if any filtering file is chosen the index will include only word listed in this file.

Stop-words & checkbox "Use stop-words" – if any stop-word file is chosen the words listed in this file will be excluded from the index.

Tab "Options"
Using the button "Index words --> Dictionary" it is possible to copy words from the index into the filtering dictionary file.

With buttons "Edit Filtering dictionary" and "Edit Stop-words" these files are opened for editing.

Option "Show maximum files" can be used to set the number of files shown in the search result window as one portion.

If file is very big it may take long time to load it into the preview window. With option "Warn if file is more than (KB)" it is possible to set a maximum file size for generating a warning message about possible delay when loading the file.

version 7.02:

Tab "Search":
Sorting files by their names or relevancy can be done with checkboxes on top of the search result view. Relevancy is calculated by formula:
X + X/Z (X - number of occurrences of searched words, Z - total count of words in a document).
Tab "Index"
checkbox "Scan archives (zip, arj, cab, rar)" – it is possible to extract selected files types from archives and index them