Thunderstone Blog: Customized Search Engine & Search Software

You don't need to be a big business to get quality service. While the Google Mini was discontinued by Google, Thunderstone still takes care of small- and medium-sized businesses in need of a search appliance by upgrading your old option.

Out With the Old Search Appliance and In With the New

You shouldn't be left out in the cold because your old search appliance was discontinued. Our products are designed with the flexibility to meet your needs. The Thunderstone Search Appliance benefits your organization through:

• Increased website ROI
• Reduced customer service costs
• Increased productivity
• Customized configuration and integration

Customers that upgrade to the Thunderstone Search Appliance will receive assistance from our experts during the transition so that you can see the difference for yourself. We also set you up with a 30-day money back guarantee in case the search appliance isn't for you.

Search Appliance Solutions from Thunderstone

We've worked with customers of all shapes and sizes, ranging from government entities to businesses. Google may not cater to smaller organizations, but our premier search appliances can help your business get the results it needs. Contact us online or give us a call at 216-820-2200 for more information about upgrading to Thunderstone.

CLEVELAND, OH, November 2, 2015 — Improving the quality of search for intranet, public facing websites and aggregator sites -- Search Appliance Version 15 is here.

New crawl features include

Performance improvements indexing many sites at once

If you are creating a search that indexes many different websites the performance of the indexing has been improved. This will allow for more frequent indexing of such indexes.

MIME type enforcement

When crawling across many sites you may find that the web server may still return content that does not match the Mime Types requested. The setting will now be enforced by the crawler, which can help eliminate a lot of unwanted content from a crawl.

Client Certificate option

The crawler can be given a client SSL certificate to use when crawling HTTPS sites, allowing crawling of sites that use client SSL certificates for authentication.

New search features include

Quotes for Literal option

Allows you to change the meaning of quoting a search term from creating a phrase that is still subject to the normal thesaurus, word form and other linguistic processing to searching for exactly what you typed in, although still case-insensitive.

Improved HTML Highlighting

Lets users see the results in the original HTML for better contextual information with support for more complex HTML.

Availability

Search Appliance Version 15 is available to all Search Appliance and Parametric Search Appliance customers who have a current maintenance plan by following the menu System / System Setup / Update Software.

For 34 years Thunderstone Software has been dedicated to providing the best search solutions possible to government, corporate, and non-profit customers, with exceptional service and devotion to finding the right solution for the customer.

For further information call +1 216-820-2200, visit www.thunderstone.com.

Superior Technical Support Continues to Drive Further Product Enhancements

CLEVELAND, OH — Thunderstone Software LLC has released Version 9 of the Thunderstone Search Appliance, adding a number of new features which apply to Thunderstone's entire line of Appliance products, including Thunderstone Parametric Search Appliances. These enhancements include:

• Faster Searching — searches return two to three times faster in many cases
• Query auto-complete providing suggestions as you type
• Content caching to allow users to view off-line content
• Improved administrative interface with selectable themes
• Walk log archiving for extended period analysis

Whether configured as a Thunderstone Search Appliance SBE (Small Business Edition,) a Thunderstone Search Appliance (Enterprise Edition) or a Thunderstone Parametric Search Appliance, the Appliance comes with:

• A one-time, perpetual license that saves customers 40-60 percent (or more) compared to Thunderstone's closest competitor
• Two years of included maintenance, easily extended for additional years at affordable annual rates
• Superior technical support from software engineers readily accessible to customers by phone, email and message board
• No restrictions on indexing third-party websites for user-empowering applications and for competitive intelligence purposes
• Ability to fully search targeted repositories (file servers, web servers, intranet/portal servers, database servers, application databases, etc.) and to handle files that exceed 30 MB in size
• An attractive Product Investment Protection Program that makes upgrading a breeze, applying 100 percent of the initial Thunderstone product's purchase price to any desired upgrade
• Availability as a virtual appliance image to run under a hypervisor to allow for more efficient hardware utilization and manageability

All Thunderstone customers with current Appliance maintenance agreements in place automatically qualify to receive the downloadable Version 9 software update.

Reporters, editors, analysts, I.T. integrators/resellers and prospective customers who would like to see the Thunderstone Search Appliance “in action” may phone Thunderstone at +1 216-820-2200, Monday - Friday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Eastern Time, to arrange a free and personalized product demo. After the scheduled demo, you may also request shipment of a pre-configured Thunderstone Search Appliance that you can thoroughly evaluate in your own unique environment for up to 30 days.

For over 30 years Thunderstone Software has been dedicated to providing the best search solutions possible to government, corporate, and non-profit customers, with exceptional service and devotion to finding the right solution for the customer.

For further information call +1 216-820-2200, visit www.thunderstone.com or email

CLEVELAND, OH — August 1, 2012 — Thunderstone announces a new program to assist Google Mini customers looking for a replacement for their current search appliance now that Google has announced the end of the Google Mini.

For customers upgrading to the Thunderstone Search Appliance, Thunderstone will honor the remaining warranty and support contract on the Google Mini as an extension to the standard two year support contract on a Thunderstone Search Appliance. In addition Thunderstone will provide assistance in the migration and a 30-day money back guarantee, so that the entire process is painless.

This will allow customers to install and run the Thunderstone Search Appliance alongside their existing search to experience the additional flexibility and results quality, all without losing any warranty period.

For 30 years Thunderstone Software has been dedicated to providing the best search solutions possible to government, corporate, and non-profit customers, with exceptional service and devotion to finding the right solution for the customer.

For further information call +1 216-820-2200, visit www.thunderstone.com/gmupgrade or email

CLEVELAND, OH — Making it even easier to integrate high quality search into your website -- Webinator Version 6 and Search Appliance Version 8 are here.

New features include:

• More intuitive searches, including Unicode support and accent-insensitive queries:
  This improves non-English searches; e.g. "cœur" will also match "coeur", "resume" will match "resumé".
• Enhanced search results, including multiple snippets and styled highlighting.
• XML/SOAP API to ease integration of search into dynamic sites.
• Meta Search to allow searching multiple profiles together in one transaction.
• Results Authorization so unauthorized documents don't show up in search results.
• HTTP/1.1 support including gzip compression to reduce crawl times and bandwidth utilization:
  Reduces load on targeted servers, and potentially allows access to more content.
• And much more: see the full list of new features here.

For 30 years Thunderstone Software has been dedicated to providing the best search solutions possible to government, corporate, and non-profit customers, with exceptional service and devotion to finding the right solution for the customer.

For further information call +1 216-820-2200, visit www.thunderstone.com or email