• Crawls via HTTP, file systems, SQL
• Open custom crawler interface
• Versatile scheduling options
• Fully programmable via COM and Java APIs

Parsers

• Parses extensive file formats: Word, Excel, PDF, HTML...
• Open custom parser interface for custom file types
• Parses and stores entire document, not just first 100 words
• Parses and stores defined metadata for different doc types
• Linguistic analysis: language-neutral pattern identification, stemming, noise words, synonyms...
• Fully programmable via COM and Java APIs

Collections

• Document index: maps documents to words
• Inverted index: maps words to documents
• Stores document synonyms and metadata
• Generates and manages subject taxonomies based on metadata or doc contents
• Distributes and mirrors collections across servers
• Incremental re-indexing: add documents without recreating entire index
• Fully programmable via COM and Java APIs

Queries

• Keyword, plain language, and Boolean search
• Guided navigation
• Profile notification: push notification to users when relevant content is available
• Full query processing: language, patterns (stemming, noise words, noun phrases, etc.)
• Fully programmable via COM and Java APIs