What is Finder? Finder is an advanced search engine designed from the ground up to be a complete replacement for the built-in search system. Who Should use Finder? Finder is designed for small to medium sized Joomla 1.5 sites. It performs best on sites with a few hundred to 25,000 content items. Finder is used on sites like extensions.joomla.org, outdoorphotographer.com, denali.gov, fastrecipes.com, and many more. Why Should you use Finder? Finder provides a unique blend of features that is unmatched by any other search engine: * Natural language processing and indexing to analyze content and establish relevance. * Advanced search filtering to limit results to specific content types, areas, authors, etc. * Pre-defined filters and/or search queries. * AJAX search suggestions based on the actual content of your site. * Alternative search suggestions when no results could be found (did you mean ‘joomla’ when searching for ‘jomla’?); * Selectively hide content from search. What Works with Finder? Finder currently supports: * Joomla Articles * Joomla Contacts * Joomla Web Links * Joomla Sections * Joomla Categories * JXtended Labels * JXtended Comments * DOCman Documents (1) * EventList Events * EventList Venues * File System Documents (1) * JomSocial Profiles * K2 Categories * K2 Items (including Extra Fields) * Kunena 1.5 and 1.6 Forum Posts * Remository Documents (1) * VirtueMart Products * Zoo 1.x and 2.x Items (1) DOCman and File System Documents plugins can index the contents of PDF, DOC, DOCX, TXT, and HTML files using the Finder Support plugins available at JXtended.com
