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 the Finder? Finder is designed for small to medium sized Joomla 1.5 sites. It Performs best on A Few Hundred sites with content items to 25.000. Finder is used on sites like extensions.joomla.org, outdoorphotographer.com, denali.gov, fastrecipes.com, and many more. Why Should you use the 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 filtering to limit search 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 * Contacts * Joomla Joomla Joomla Sections Web Links * Categories * Joomla JXtended Labels * * * DOCman Documents JXtended Comments (1) * * EventList EventList Events Venues * File System Documents (1) * JomSocial Profiles Categories * K2 * K2 Items (Including Extra Fields) * Kunena 1.5 and 1.6 * Remository Forum Posts Documents (1) * Products * Zoo VirtueMart 1.x and 2.x Items (1) DOCman Documents and File System plugins can index the contents of PDF, DOC, DOCX, TXT, and HTML files using the Finder Support plugins available at JXtended.com
