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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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- How 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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