Web Site Search

Ektron CMS400.NET’s Web site search provides extremely fast results without impacting the load on your database. To accomplish these goals, Ektron CMS400.NET stores a separate copy of all published content in local index files (also known as a catalog). The Microsoft Windows Indexing service constantly indexes the catalog so that search results are returned with lightning speed.

Note: Actually, two catalogs are created: one for public content, and another for private content.

Another advantage of the indexing service is its robust query language. Site visitors can use it to find Web site content by combining a rich collection of search criteria, including

boolean and proximity operators

wildcards

free text queries

vector space queries

property value queries

These are explained in Query Language.

A third benefit of this architecture is scalability. If the amount of content or number of hits begins to affect performance, you can move the catalog to a separate server to handle the increased workload.

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