SearchBlox

SearchBlox is a powerful Java-based enterprise server with complex underpinnings that aims to improve your company's productivity by offering a smart way to search for relevant content.

If it sounds a bit vague, it can perform searches for a wide variety of file and data types. For example, for documents, databases, websites, RSS feeds, emails, archives, videos, images, basically, almost anything that is not purposefully hidden and includes metadata.

Assuming you already have Java installed, the application features a surprise-free and typical installation process, subsequent to which you can start taking advantage of what it has to offer with the help of your default web browser.

This said, you need to simply double-click the utility's icon, wait a few seconds for it to configure the server using Command Prompt, and then type the following address in your browser: http://localhost:8080/searchblox/admin/main.jsp.

Once logged in, you are greeted by a user-friendly web-based console that makes working with SearchBlox as straightforward and as intuitive as possible. To start taking advantage of what it has to offer, in theory at least, you only need to set up a folder location or a root URL and the app automatically starts indexing data for you.

Regardless of your needing a website search engine, a local network search engine, intranet search, e-Commerce search, cloud search or a faceted search, the tool comes with competent crawlers that are up for the job at hand.

Even better, unlike other similar search solutions, SearchBlox makes it possible for you to index an unlimited number of documents.

Last but not least, it offers you the option to sort your search results by relevance and date, and in alphabetical, ascending or descending order.

To conclude, with its impressive set of features and friendliness towards users, SearchBlox is one of the few players in the industry of enterprise search services, and it is clearly one of the best out there.