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Putting
high-quality searching on your website takes just a few minutes:
- Sign-up for Search.Blossom from Blossom Software.
- Link your Search form to the Search.Blossom gateway.
(We'll give you a template Web Page to show you how.)
That's it!
We'll take care of creating an index for your site and
hooking it up to our search engine.
There is no software to install and nothing to maintain.
The benefits of using a hosted search service,
instead of installing and running a website search engine locally,
are numerous:
- Nothing to Install.
Using a search service is very easy.
You just create a search form that points to the search server.
There is no software to install or configure.
- Always Run the Latest Software.
At Blossom, we continually improve the capability,
efficiency, and reliability of our search engine.
As a subscriber,
you get the benefit of our work automatically:
there is nothing to install and nothing to upgrade.
- Expert Help Always Available.
Blossom will monitor your search to make sure it is running smoothly.
If a problem does occur,
you can rely on our experienced support staff to fix it quickly.
If you are having difficulty integrating search with your site,
or if you have special requirements,
you can call on our staff for expert advice.
- Less Load on Your Hardware.
Spidering documents and creating a search index can require significant computing resources,
and searching an index is among the most complex tasks carried out on a Web site.
By having our servers perform these tasks,
you lighten the load on your servers
keeping them responsive to other requests.
- More Secure.
Because of their complexity,
search engines are often an avenue for attack by hackers.
Some search engines are poorly written
or written in scripting languages that can be compromised.
Blossom's search software has been hardened through years of
development and testing on millions of queries.
- Save Time.
Once you create your search form,
and optionally customize the search results,
your job is done.
There is nothing to monitor,
no index updates to schedule,
and no software to upgrade.
To read more about outsourcing search,
see Steve Arnold's article Should your enterprise outsource search?
from the May 2006 issue of KM World.
Blossom's search engine is simple to use and delivers superior results:
- Results in Context.
The search results show the sentence containing the words being searched for,
so there is no question as to why a page is listed.
- Guided Search.
The search engine suggests modifications when a query is too broad or narrow.
- Entity Search.
Recognition of common entities like phone numbers, email and postal addresses, and monetary amounts.
- Spell Checking.
Each word is checked against all the words on the site.
If a word doesn't appear on the site,
the search engine suggests similar words that do appear.
- Page Highlighting.
At your option,
when a visitor selects a page from the search results,
you can have Blossom's search server read the page from your server
and highlight the search terms on the fly.
- Smart Handling of Words and Phrases.
Search strings are automatically expanded to find different suffixes:
for example,
bread will match breads, breaded, and breading.
Words in phrases are automatically reordered:
for example,
mount everest will also match everest mountain.
- Searchable Index.
The words in the index itself can be searched.
If you are not sure of how a word is spelled,
you can just type the first few letters and ask for all words
on the site that begin with those letters.
- No Advertisements.
No need to worry about inappropriate advertisements appearing alongside
your search results--we never display ads.
- Reliability through Redundancy.
We use multiple geographically-distributed search servers,
each with multiple connections to the Internet.
Bottom line: search is always available.
- We're Here for the Long Term.
We take pride in having built our business through sales, not venture capital.
It's true, our Web site is plain and our offices are modest,
but our technology is on the leading edge
and our staff is determined to keep clients happy.
Plus, you'll get these tools to help you manage your Web site:
- Weekly Search Report.
Each week you'll receive a report telling you
what people searched for on your site,
as well as what, historically,
have been the most popular search terms.
- Automatic Table of Contents.
We'll generate a complete site map for your site
that includes page titles.
Use the map to organize your pages,
or give your visitors access to the map to
help them navigate your site.
- List of Words.
You'll have access to the complete lexicon
for your site; that is, a list of all the words used
on your site along with how many times each word is used.
The list makes it easy to find spelling mistakes and
other inconsistencies across pages.
- Test for Broken Links.
As a search subscriber you can have your site
audited at a discounted price.
Blossom's audit service
tests links both on and off your site,
pinpointing any links that are broken.
To learn more about search engines take a look at
What makes a good website search engine?.
Are you considering using Google or another ad-based search service?
See Blossom vs. Google before you choose.
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Try Search.Blossom on your site for free
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