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Benefits |
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The easiest way to get to your products and services.
How many times have you gone to a site and end up being lost and frustrated? Web navigation can be a challenge for some users, so they see a search engine
as a lifeline. Given the potential power of searching and the number of people who prefer searching to browsing every page should have either a search box or a
link to a search page. Falcon Smart Search Engine is a search engine on your site that is going to give your customers the ability to navigate through your site,
locating to do with a specific keyword or item number fast and easily. Actually this is the role of the web site and if you haven'’ got a search engine yet, you
should seriously think about this option.
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Keyword Mapping (for Professional and Enterprise versions only)
"Keyword mapping" it is about providing the most useful set of search results that will lead users to what they are looking for. The way this work is that you
Look at your search engine’s log and look at the most popular words with which your users are searching your web site. Then you map these words to the
pages that are most relevant for that search term, so from the results page the users will go to the pages you want them to go.
The search engine offers you the possibility to attach links to other pages and texts necessary to your clients’ guide to the important pages of your site as well.
All these are possible in the "Keyword not found" page.
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Easy to fit in your site
After the search engine installation your site will contain a new web page (search.asp or search.asp). Click
here to preview the default page that would be added to your web site. If
you want this page to have the same layout as the rest of your web site you have to modify the two files (header.inc and footer.inc) which can be found
in the installation archive. Therefore, header.inc file will contain graphics elements from top and left side of the web pages.
Footer.inc file will contain graphics elements from right side and bottom of the web pages. These files will contain HTML syntax and graphics elements. So, if
you know HTML syntax you will be able to layout your search page in order to have the same graphics as the rest of the site.
To fit in search page easier Falcon Software offers you a service, which will create header.inc and footer.inc, files for you. Click
here fore more details about search engine fit in services.
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One-time license fee and no third party advertisements.
All of our licenses are sold as a one-time fee. Once purchased, you can continue using our searech engine on your web site for as long as you wish.
In case you have more then one web site you can pay once for "Enterprise Version" and you can use this version for all your web sites.
Our one-time fee pricing makes our search engine a fantastic value!
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Fit for any hosting package.
After the installation, Falcon’s Search Engine creates a file that saves your site pages. Due to this file, you can search very fast without needing a database or
a supplementary server. There are other kinds of searching engines that do not use database but searching is very difficult and web server loading is high.
In addition, there are also searching engines that require database. They need a hosting package that contains database support but installation is difficult
and needs qualified support not to mention that are also expensive.
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Get Details |
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Falcon’s Smart Search Engine is a new page in your site, which gives your clients the possibility to get to the information, or products they are looking for
fast and easily.
This page will be accessed with http://www.yourwebsite.com/search.asp or http://www.yourwebsite.com/search.asp.
Falcon’s Smart Search Engine works for any kind of web hosting package. Therefore, for MS Windows platforms the searching page will be search.asp and for the rest
of the platforms search.asp. Loading this page in your web site will always be done in your web site’s
root folder.
Another important detail of this search engine is the fact that it runs just on your web server without other supplementary servers being needed.
Other search engines need a supplementary server and you will have to pay each month to use them. In this case the search page will be accesata
http://www.aditional-server.com/search.asp?CompanyId=YourID.
Because Falcon’s Smart Search Engine does not need any supplementary servers, you will have 100% control on your search results and through your search
results, you will not have any "sponsored links" to other web sites.
After search.asp or search.asp is loaded in, your site root folder Falcon’s Smart Search Engine creates more files which contain your web site pages content.
Those files are created only once and are automatic. Those files make finding information in your site easier and faster and do not use your web server resources.
If your site contains dynamic content pages, which displays information bases on ID those will not be indexed in Falcon’s Smart Search Engine database.
By example, page http://www.yourwebsite.com/GetDetails.asp?=1 will not be indexed by Falcon’s Smart Search Engine because the content of this page is loaded
from a database so in this case the search is made by using directly the existing database. For this kind of web sites, you can use the
custom version of our search engine.
For more details, please visit the Versions page.
After finishing installing the search engine of your site will contain a new page (search.asp or search.asp). For this page, having the same layout you will have to
modify the two files (header.inc and footer.inc), which are found in the installation archive. . Therefore, header.inc file will contain graphics elements from top
and left side of the web pages. Footer.inc file will contain graphics elements from right side and bottom of the web pages. These pages will contain HTML syntax
and graphics elements. So, if you know HTML syntax you will be able to layout your search page in order to have the same graphics as the rest of the site.
To fit in search page easier Falcon Software offers you a service, which will create header.inc and footer.inc, files for you. For more details about
search engine fit in services, click here.
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| 2. How to Install |
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No matter what version you choose you will get an archive with three folders: "Manual", "ASP", and "PHP".
"Manual" folder contains just a file called "manual.html" that has all the details regarding this searching engine.
"ASP" folder contains the files to use if you have a web hosting on a MS Windows platform.
This folder contains three files in "Free Version" and "Personal Version". These files are search.asp, header.inc and footer.inc.
"Professional Engine" or "Enterprise Engine" contain besides the above mentioned another folder "Search Engine Module".
"PHP" folder contains the files to use if you have a web hosting on a platform different from MS Windows, by example Linux/Unix.
This folder contains three files in "Free Version" and "Personal Version". These files are search.asp, header.inc and footer.inc. Professional Engine" or
"Enterprise Engine" contain besides these three files, another folder called "SearchEngineModule".
No matter what version you choose Falcon’s Smart Search Engine installation follows four steps:
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Hosting type determination
The first step is hosting type determination. To find this you have to ask the web hosting company what platform they use. If you have a hosting account on
a MS Windows platform, you will use the files from "ASP" folder. If you have a platform different from MS Windows, you will use the files from "PHP" folder.
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Uploading search engine web pages
The second step refers to the files loading from ASP and PHP folder in your web site root folder. We remind you that you have to upload only the files from one of
ASP or PHP folders in your web site root folder and not files from both folders. By example, if you have a web hosting account on a Linux platform you’ll upload
just the files from "PHP" folder in your web site root folder. You have to pay attention to upload "PHP" folder content in the root folder and not directly "PHP" folder.
This means that you have to have search.asp (search.asp for a web hosting on a MS Windows platform) in your root folder.
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Searching Page Link to web sites pages
The third step refers to searching page link to the rest of your web site pages. This link can be done in two ways. Either each web site page will have a link to
searching page, either it will have a field where to type the words you are looking for.
To have a link to searching page you have to introduce the following text on each web site page:
<a href="/search.asp">Search</a>
for a MS Windows platform web hosting account.
or
<a href="/search.asp">Search</a>
for a Linux/Unix platform web hosting account
To have a field where to type the words you are looking for you’ll introduce the following text:
<form action="/search.asp">
Search: <input type="text" name="txtSearch">
</form>
for a MS Windows platform web hosting account.
or
<form action="/search.asp">
Search: <input type="text" name="txtSearch">
</form>
for a web hosting account on Linux/Unix platform
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Search page layout modification
As soon as you have finished the three steps, your site will continue a new web page (search.asp or search.asp). Click
here to preview the default search page that would be added to your web site. If you want this page to have the same layout as the rest of your web site you have to introduce html syntax and your graphics elements in header.inc and footer.inc files. So, header.inc file will contain html syntax and graphics elements from the top and left side of your web site and footer.inc will contain html syntax and graphics elements from the right side and bottom of web pages.
As an observation, we have to define two styles in header.inc file:
a.SearchTitle - will define search page title link aspect
.SearchContent - will define search page text aspect
If you do not manage to fit search engine in your site we offer you two services which allow you to do it.
For more details click here.
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| 3. Updating search results |
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Professional and enterprise versions have a very powerful administrative module. Using this module you will decide which web pages will be indexed
for searching, you can assign keywords for certain web pages from your sites and also you can see statistics with your client’s searches.
This module can be accessed at http://www.yourwebsite.com/SearchEngineModule/. You will have to enter the username and password that you
received when you bought these versions. After that will appear a menu with next options in the left part of the page: "Keywords", "Keyword Mapping", "Indexed Directories", "Web Files", "Indexing", "Change master Password", "Backup" and "Restore".
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Keywords Option
If you click, "Keywords" options will appear a chart with keywords demanded by your clients.
"Rank" column shows how many times that keyword has been looked for.
"Web Page" column represents the page assigned to each keyword.
Initially, the keywords are not assigned to this page and you will get the message "Not set". Clicking on "Not set" the "Keyword Mapping" page will be displayed and you will be able to set a web page for that respective keyword. This assignment means that when you’re looking for that keyword, that respective assigned keyword page always represents the first result from searching page.
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Keyword Mapping
With this option, you will be able to add, modify, or erase a web page assigned to a keyword. Therefore, the moment you’re looking for respective
keyword the assigned page will be displayed first and just after that the pages containing the keyword. To assign a web page to keyword you have to
introduce the keyword you want in the field situated under "Keyword" column. In the field situated under "Link" column you have to introduce web page, you
want to assign. After that, clicking "Add Keyword" button will save the wanted map-area. In case you don't know which page should be assigned in the
"Link" field you have the "?" link that when clicked will display a list with the web pages of your site and you just select the desired page and press the
"Set Link" button. The list will close and the "Link" field will be completed with the web page you selected.
Modifying the assignment of a web page is possible by clicking the "Edit" button displayed near every web page’s keyword. Then you can modify the
"Keywords" and "Link" fields. You can save the modifications by clicking the "Add Keyword" button. You can choose the web page by clicking the "?"
button and follow the procedures described above.
To erase a web page already assigned to a keyword you have to click "Remove" link situated near each keyword and already assigned a web page to it.
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Web Files
This menu gives you the possibility to choose the web pages types to be displayed in the page containing the searching results. Initially the pages displayed
among searching results will have one of "html", "htm", "asp", or "php" extention, but you can add other web pages types such as "jsp", or "cfm".
To add a new extention for the web pages appeared among searching results you have to introduce this new extention in the field situated near "Add" button.
After that, you have to press "Add" button.
If you want a certain extention web pages not to appear among searching results is enouhg to click extentions you want to erase and then click on
"Remove Selected" button.
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Indexed Directories
This option allows you to select the files and folders to appear among searching results.
The moment you click "Indexed Directories" will appear the names of the files and folders from the root folder. Second column represents the type of each file.
Therefore, a file can be "Web File" if the extention has been defined in "Web Files" section. If the file extention has not been defined in "Web File" section,
the type of the file will be "Unknown File".
Third column mentions if the web page will appear among the searching results or not. Therefore, if in the "Status" column appears "indexed" near a web page
then the page will appear through the search results. If the "Status" column is "unindexed" than the web page will not appear through the search results.
In case that the status of a folder is unindexed then none of the pages from that folder will appear through the search results. In case that a the status of a folder
is indexed click on folder’s name and you can choose which pages from that specific folder will appear through the search results.
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Indexing
This section updates the search results. Every time you change something in administration or modify one of your web site pages you have to work this option
in order to find your modification in searching page. Practically this option saves your web site content in these files of this search engine depending on
administration sets.
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Change Master Password
You can change the requested password the moment you want to enter in this administration mode.
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Backup
It is recommended also to backup the moment you’ve done the desired modifications in administration. Therefore, the moment the files of this search engine
are lost or the web hosting company erases them you have the possibility to recover them without loosing information. You press "Backup" and a window
opens. Then you have to mention the place on your computer where to save data of search engine.
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Restore
If you enter administration and don't find your data anymore, it means that this search engine data files have beed erased. In this case, you can use
backup file you have on your computer.
To recover the data you’ve lost, you firstly have to click "Browse". The in the displayed window you have to choose backup file and click "Open" button.
After you’ve selected backup file you have to click "Submit Query". Finally, data you’ve saved will appear again in administration section.
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Do I have to pay each month in order to use this search engine?
You do not have to pay any monthly fee in order to use this search engine. You only have to pay once when decide to buy one of Falcon’s Smart Search
Engine version.
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Can I use Falcon’s Smart Search Engine for more web sites?
The only versions that can be used for different web sites are "Free Version" and "Enterprise Version". "Personal version" and "Professional Version" can
be used just with the web site you mention the moment you pay.
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How to install it?
To install "Free" and "Personal" you have to upload root folder in search.asp or search.asp and header.in and footer.inc.
For "Professional" and "Enterprise" versions besides search.asp (search.asp), footer.inc, header.inc you must upload "Searching Engine module" as well.
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Which is my web site root folder?
Root folder is the one you find your web site home page in.
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How to access Falcon’s Smart Search Engine administration pages?
Administration mode is an option available only at "professional Version" and "Enterprise version". To access the administration mode pages you have to attach
the link: http//www.your-web-site.com/SearchengineModuleData/
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Do I need a special hosting package for this searching engine?
You don't need a special hosting package for this searching engine module. Falcon’s Smart Searching Engine doesn’t need a data basis support. Although for
using this searching engine you need an asp or php support. This support is available by any web hosting packages.
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Does this searching engine need special security settings to function right?
This searching engine doesn’t need any special security parameter modification for rolling. Although due to some web hosting very strictly security polices the
versions we offer might not work right. We recommend to install first "Free Version’ before you decide to buy any searching engine version. If "free version"
works right all the other versions will.
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Does this searching engine need a supplementary server or it works just on my server?
Falcon’s Smart Searching Engine doesn’t need any supplementary server. This searching engine uses just your web server.
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What do I have to do so my searching page has the same layout as the rest of the web site?
The files that contain these searching engine graphics elements are header.inc and footer.inc. These files contain HTML syntax of the searching page
graphics elements. Therefore, header.inc file contains graphics elements from the top and left side of the web page. Footer.inc file contains graphics
elements from the right and bottom of the web pages. If you find it difficult to insert graphics elements in this searching engine, we offer you two services
that allow you to modify your searching page layout.
Click here for more details.
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CHow to link the search page to the rest of the web site?
After finishing installation, you will have a new page in your site called search.asp or search.asp. Users can access this page only after you link this page to
the others of your site. Linking can be done in two ways.
- First one is creating a link having this script:
<a href="/search.asp">Search</a>
for a MS Windows platform web hosting account.
or
<a href="/search.asp">Search</a>
for a Linux/Unix platform web hosting account
- The second one is creating a search form like the following:
<form action="/search.asp">
Search: <input type="text" name="txtSearch">
</form>
for a MS Windows platform web hosting account.
or
<form action="/search.asp">
Search: <input type="text" name="txtSearch">
</form>
for a web hosting account on Linux/Unix platform
If those above seem too complicated, we recommend "Enterprise Integration"
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Does Falcon’s Smart Engine "keyword mapping" option?
Yes, Falcon’s Smart Engine has "keyword mapping" option. This option is available on "Professional Version" and "Enterprise Version" The way this works is
that you look at your search engine log file and look at the most popular words with which your users are searching for your web site. Then you map these words
to the pages that are most relevant for that search term.
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What means "Smart Search"?
All versions of Falcon’s Smart Search Engine uses internal which are very helpful for searching information in your web site. When any user searches for a
certain word in your web site searching is made through your internal folders not only in your web pages. Therefore searching is very fast and does’t
overload your server.
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Can I modify the text from "keyword not found" page?
The text from "keyword not found" page can be modified so that the client is routed to one of the products or services of your company. This option is available
only in "Professional Version" and "Enterprise Version". In this version, you have the "Not found" option in the administrative pages of the search engine.
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I have changed web site content. What do I have to do to appear the new pages in search engine?
In the "Free Version" or "Personal Version" and you wish to change the search engine’s database content simply search for "reindexwebsite" word. Click and the
database will be upgraded.
"Professional Version" and "Enterprise Version" has in the administrative module the "indexing" option that will update the database with the new pages.
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How to delete a web page from searching results?
In the "Free Version" and "Personal Version" simply rename the page and the first character has to be "_" (underline). For example, page "admin.html" has to be
renamed as "_admin.html" so this page will be extracted from the search engine’s database.
In the "Professional Version" and "Enterprise Version" go to the page "Indexed Directories" from administrative module and you can choose the files that you
don't want to be indexed.
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How to extract a complete folder from search results?
In the "Free Version" and "Personal Version" the pages that are outside root folder won’t be indexed.
If you use "Enterprise Version" or "Professional Version" for a folder not to be anymore in the database of the search engine you have to go in
"Indexed Directories" page and choose the folders you don't want to be indexed.
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Does my site have web pages with other extentions different from "html", "htm", "asp" or "php". What do I have to do to appear
these pages in search results?
"Free Version" and "Personal" version allows only files with html, htm, asp and php extension to be indexed.
In the "Professional Version" and "Enterprise Version" Web pages will be indexed not matter which extension they have. Administrative module of these
versions has "Web Files" option where you can specify any web page extension.
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Why don't I find any more information regardless searched keywords?
Sometimes search engine’s settings might be lost because your web host upgrades their servers or change their settings. Therefore, for preventing data
lost you have in the administrative module backup and restore options. Using these operations, you can recover your data and setting no matter which
modifications your web host has done.
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