SearchInform speeds text search

31st May 2007
By Jason Stamper

SearchInform Technologies announced a new version of its eponymous SearchInform, a system of full text search and search for documents with similar content in large data volumes, featuring an enhanced data indexing algorithm.

The firm said with the latest version, an agent program tracking all changes is installed on each computer and all data gets recorded into a log file. Before, scanning all these files for changes used to be extremely time-consuming, now only the log file created by the agent-program gets scanned. As a result the index updating speed has significantly increased.

SearchInform also noted that now, all information gets indexed regardless of whether the folder is in common access or not. All indexed data gets placed into the storage located on the server, allowing the user to search through all information regardless of the computer it was indexed on, so even if the computer containing required information is switched off, the information will still be found.

The tool features support for over 60 of the most popular text formats, Outlook, TheBat electronic messages, MP3 and .avi tags, and logs of MSN and ICQ instant messaging programs.