What is FreeFind?
FreeFind is a hosted site search engine service that allows website owners to add advanced search functionality to their sites quickly and easily. With nothing to download or install, you can set up a powerful search engine for your website in minutes. FreeFind offers high-speed search, high availability, and a range of features including adjustable relevance scoring, phrase matching, stemming and stopwords in multiple languages, PDF and document indexing, automatic site maps, and complete customization of search results. The service has been used by over 200,000 websites since 1998 and provides both free and professional versions.
Features
- High search capacity: Handles large volumes of searches efficiently.
- On-demand re-indexing: Re-index your entire site at any time.
- Scheduled re-indexing: Automatically re-index as often as daily.
- Complete customization: Customize search results to match your site's look and feel.
- Site search API: Perform searches programmatically via AJAX or server-side (professional version).
- Adjustable relevance scoring: Tune search results for your site.
- Phrase matching: Choose exact, near, or far phrase matching.
- PDF and document indexing: Index PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and other formats.
- Automatic site map: Generate customizable site maps.
- Language support: Works with many languages and Unicode.
Use Cases
- Adding search functionality to a website without coding.
- Improving user experience by enabling site-specific searching.
- Indexing and searching documents like PDFs and Word files on a site.
- Providing advanced boolean search for technical or research websites.
- Creating a custom search engine for an intranet or protected content area.
