Features

Full text indexing. Different priority can be configured for body, title, keywords, description of a document.

Supporting all widely used single- and multi-byte character sets, including UTF8, as well as most of the popular Eastern Asia languages.

Automatic document character set and language guesser for about 70 charset/language combinations.

ASP-frontend

Web-configurator

HTTP/1.0 support

FTP support

NNTP support (both news:// and nntp:// URL schemes) in standard and extended modes.

HTTP Proxy support

Local file system indexing support (file: URL schema)

Supporting gzip, deflate, compress content encoding

Most of the modern SQL databases support. Currently Oracle, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, Sybase ASE, MySQL, PostgreSQL, InterBase, Firebird, Mimer, SQLite, Virtuoso, iODBC, unixODBC, EasySoft ODBC-ODBC bridge IBM DB2 Caché databases may be used as mnoGoSearch backend.

Search clusters: creating a search database, distributed between several machines, with up to dozens or hundreds millions documents.

Basic authorization support (to index password protected areas)

Built-in support for HTML, XML and text document formats.

External parsers support for other file types (pdf, ps, doc etc.)

Indexing of data stored in a SQL database

Mirroring features

Stopwords support

"keywords", "description" META tags support

User defined META tag support.

Reentant capability. You can run few indexers and searching processes at the time

Continual indexing

Indexing depth can be limited

Robots exclusion standard support (both <META NAME="robots"> and robots.txt)

HTML and XML templates to easily customize search results

Boolean query support

Fuzzy search: different word forms (stemming), synonyms, substrings

C CGI, PHP3, Perl search frontends

Search through a subsection of a database

It is very flexible. You can configure mnoGoSearch to run in different modes, including 'ftpsearch mode' (searching through URLs rather than their content),'link validation' (to check site for bad references), 'netminder' (What's new since ...?).