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The psSiteSearch module is a truly advanced search engine module for your DNN website. Index any HTML content as well as Microsoft Office and PDF documents.

Why use psSiteSearch?

Easy to install and setup
It can search any type of content including Web Pages, Microsoft Office documents and PDF files
Search results are ranked more accurately making sure your users see the correct pages
It uses the DNN scheduler to run at regular intervals ensuring your new site content is indexed when you want
Shows the user what the search results are linking to - Web Page, PDF, Office Document, etc.
Allows your users to filter the search results by the result type, i.e. Web Page, PDF, Office Document, etc.
Works with DNN v4.9.1+, v5+ and v6+

About psSiteSearch

The psSiteSearch module is a search engine module for your DNN website and is a direct replacement for the built-in search module. It is based on Lucene.net and includes a web spider which is used to crawl your site and gather all page URLs. This means you can have a real search engine on your own website! This gives you much more control and provides far more accurate search results.

The search engine will honour your robots.txt file and also any page META directives including "no index" and "no follow".

What our customers say

"This is a fantastic replacement for the Core Search (which barely works). Now users can actually search for terms and GET RESULTS! Support was fantastic when I emailed them for help with indexing (again, it worked itself out on its own, i think it just needed time to schedule and index), they responded within minutes to provide assistance." - Dave G
"We are very pleased with psSiteSearch. It has all the options we were looking for and it's working fine. Its wildcard search is great and will make the 'searching experience' much easier, especially for our less experienced colleagues. I'm also very glad it could be tailored to our wishes adding a Paging-off option. Thumbs up!!!" - D.A.J. Beerman

New in v2

Filter search results by current user permissions
Ability to add multiple sites (DNN and non-DNN) to be indexed and which sites should be used for search results per module instance
Ability to show search result Facets (Document type) and filter results by the selected facet
Option to show the search result document type icon - makes it easy for your users to identify the type of document a link is going to - Word, Excel, Web page, PowerPoint, PDF, etc.
Option to make links to documents open in a new window
Option to add Portal file system paths to the search scope for each site added
Option to enter a 'Canonical Link' regular expression setting so that if a page is found with a Canonical link it will be ignored and not indexed.
Improved PDF indexing performance

Features

True web spider crawling and indexing of your site content including Microsoft Office and PDF documents
DNN v4.9.1+ & v5+ & v6+ compatible
W3C and XHTML Compliant
64 bit version available
Support multiple DNN and non-DNN sites to be indexed and includes the ability to choose which sites to search for each instance of the Search Results module
Link text filters - so you can filter out certain URLs from being indexed
NOINDEX/Ignore regions are honoured by the spider
Index your site using a specific DNN Role
Option to set the default query operator (OR/AND) and whether the search should use a Wildcard operator
Option to specify a Windows account for sites protected by Windows Authentication/Active Directory
Honours your robots.txt rules
Honours page META directives including "no index" and "no follow"
Skin object so you can include the search control directly into your skin templates
Easy administration with just one module installed and reused
Automatic spider schedule using the DNN scheduler
Supports multiple child portals
Search input box allows the user to enter a search term and just press the enter key to perform the search. Saves users having to click the search button
Search operators include:
- OR, AND, NOT
Term modifiers include:
- Wildcard Searches
- Fuzzy Searches
- Proximity Searches
- Range Searches
- Term Boosting
12 months of free updates
Comprehensive user guide - download guide