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From Intel® Software Partner Program Success Story with dtSearch
From Intel ® Software Partner Program Success Story with dtSearch: 
“‘We review performance parameters at every step of data access, data parsing, indexing, searching, and hit-highlighting. Intel ® VTune™ Performance Analyzer excels at helping us optimize these processes as part of our development cycle.’”
     “Using the Intel® Concurrency Checker, available through the Intel® Software Partner Program, [dtSearch Corp.] then tested a dtSearch Engine sample application to simulate high-volume concurrent searching of a single shared index, similar to what might occur on a high-traffic web site. The dtSearch Engine multi-threaded indexed search demo achieved 100 percent parallel time in the Intel Concurrency Checker test, indicating full optimization for multi-core hardware under that test scenario.”
     “The relationship between Intel and dtSearch stretches back a number of years, helping dtSearch continue to develop in parallel with the evolution of client and server platforms. As a result, the combination of hardware and software generates synergies that deliver excellent performance and other benefits to end-customers, including internal customers at Intel.”

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Contegra adds “autosuggest search assistant” and “find related” options to its Kaleido faceted search interface built for the dtSearch Engine API.
Contegra adds “autosuggest search assistant” and “find related” options to its Kaleido faceted search interface built for the dtSearch Engine API.
The new “autosuggest search assistant” option lets the end-user hone in on key concepts while entering a search request. For example, type pol in the 400,000 news articles in the Kaleido online demo at kaleidosearch.com/hldemo, and the suggestion box offers 14 topic suggestions, ranging from foreign policy to polar regions. The new “find related” option lets users enter up to 1,000 words of text, display a conceptual word cloud and find similar documents. “We then invoke the dtSearch Engine to query for similar documents across the data set.”
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Kaleidosearch adds “out of the box” faceted search to a dtSearch Engine installation. 
Kaleidosearch adds “out of the box” faceted search to a dtSearch Engine installation.
Faceted search, the ability to dynamically filter search results by attributes, has remained out of reach for many organizations looking to add enhanced search options to their e-commerce stores, content-rich websites and other applications. Contegra Systems, designer of award-winning sites for Fortune 500 companies and other major online publishers, has now developed Kaleidosearch. Kaleidosearch lets customers integrate faceted search with a wide range of data sources for plug and play operation.  Built on the dtSearch Engine, “the market-leading search platform,” Kaleidosearch “faceted search leverages your metadata to ensure successful search results and to eliminate dead-end searches.”  Contegra “chose to partner with dtSearch after more than 10 years’ experience working with their API. We believe dtSearch offers far and away the best functionality and value in the market.”
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From EContent Magazine :  "BUSINESS CHALLENGE ... Make navigation of the site faster and also provide filters to help people narrow down what they're looking forVENDOR OF CHOICE: CONTEGRA SYSTEMS AND DTSEARCH."  Contegra's "areas of expertise include strategic website design for the information publishing market, graphic web design, and guided search and navigation ... dtSearch can instantly sear ch terabytes of text ..."
Contegra's Kaleidosearch embedding the dtSearch Engine offers "the grouping of search results by facet, the ability to expand and collapse facet choices, and a search summary of selected facets ... Kaleidosearch offers customers the capabilities of a full-text search engine along with faceted navigation."
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Visual Studio Magazine 2021 Reader's Choice Award: dtSearch

dtSearch Engine: Specialized Search Engines


Near Duplication Detection component available integrating the dtSearch Engine.
Near Duplication Detection component available integrating the dtSearch Engine.
ImageMAKER will now market its Near Duplication Detection as a separate component integrating the dtSearch Engine document filters and searching. Features of Near Duplication Detection include the ability to sequentially link multiple document versions as well as the capacity to output percentage similarity between similar documents. Using the dtSearch Engine document filters along with ImageMAKER’s own technology, Near Duplication Detection can even detect the similarity of files that are fully nested in other documents. For example, Near Duplication Detection might find 87% of Document A contained in Document B, and 93% of Document B contained in Document C. Near Duplication Detection also includes a visual comparison tool that outputs HTML formatted documents, and can highlight phrase differences in different colors for easy review. The visual comparison works both locally or in shared web based environments to allow end-users to seamlessly compare documents. “As a standalone product, Near Duplicate Detection will rely on the dtSearch Engine’s robust and extremely fast search speed to provide outstanding response times in identifying close file matches across terabytes of data.”
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Contegra Systems offers new server-side PDF hit-highlighting solution.
Contegra Systems offers new server-side PDF hit-highlighting solution.
Solution summary: current versions of Adobe Reader do not include an option for highlighting search terms in PDFs. dtSearch offers a no-charge plug-in to re-add this functionality. However, the plug-in requires separate installation for each end-user. As an alternative to the dtSearch plug-in, Contegra Systems has created a “server-side only install” PDF hit-highlighting solution, bypassing the need to have each end-user separately install software to re-add hit highlights back to PDFs. “Contegra’s server-side solution works directly with dtSearch indexes as well as dtSearch’s extensive query language and syntax. dtSearch developer customers can easily integrate our hit-highlighting server-side solution into their existing applications.”
Contegra adapts PDF hit-highlighting solution to dtSearch Publish. 
In this offline version of Contegra's PDF hit-highlighting solution, search terms are also highlighted automatically in PDF documents without the need for a separate plug-in.
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I-Programmer dtSearch Engine developer tutorials.
dtSearch UK  extends dtSearch's "off the shelf" no-programming required terabyte indexer to cover  SQL, including on Azure and AWS, and SharePoint Online.
An independent company from dtSearch Corp., dtSearch UK distributes the dtSearch product line in the UK and more broadly in Europe and also develops and markets add-on dtSearch products.
SQL Add-On, Including SQL Data on Azure and AWS
This dtSearch UK add-on extends the reach of dtSearch’s “off the shelf” terabyte indexer as included in dtSearch Desktop/Network/Web.Windows products to enable SQL indexing. with no programming required. The SQL data can be local or remote, including on Azure or AWS. After indexing, dtSearch’s existing “off the shelf” products can search across the entire SQL database, or just across specific SQL metadata fields.
SharePoint Online Add-On
This dtSearch UK add-on extends the reach of dtSearch’s “off the shelf” terabyte indexer as included in dtSearch Desktop/Network/Web to enable indexing of SharePoint Online data, with no programming required. The product supports indexing of SharePoint Online lists and documents as well as OneNote accounts (individual or in SharePoint Groups or Sites) in Microsoft 365.
WordPress Add-On
dtSearch UK provides a fully managed hosted dtSearch Engine SaaS installation to power its WordPress site search plugin. (No programming required.)
“These products extend dtSearch’s instantly responsive fuzzy searching, phonic searching, relevancy ranking, synopsis options and the like to the various databases. The result is an easy to deploy, high availability database search system.”
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CodeProject dtSearch Engine developer tutorials.
CodeProject dtSearch Engine developer tutorials.
Articles cover using the dtSearch Engine with: AWS, Azure (including MS Azure SQL), SharePoint, faceted search and other topics. "Secure hosting of terabytes of a broad spectrum of data types ... with instant dtSearch search access." "Lightning quick full-text searches." dtSearch is "blazing fast ... in the cloud."
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I-Programmer dtSearch Engine developer tutorials.
I-Programmer dtSearch Engine developer tutorials.
Articles covers: getting started with C#, threading, hit highlighting, SQL indexing and document caching. “Yes it really is this easy.”
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