P@noptic 4.0.0 release notes
Released: 12 Jun 2002
| Prior to v6.0 Funnelback was known as P@noptic Search |
Better, Faster, Smarter
Panoptic V4.0 features significantly increased capacity, functionality and speed as well as improvements to result quality. Mechanisms for internal/external and restricted-scope searches are now faster and more robust. More document formats are handled and documents are gathered for indexing either by crawling or by [selectively] copying from local or remote-mounted filesystems.
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Based on RedHat Linux 7.2.
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Capacity to handle millions of documents.
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Much faster query-biased summaries.
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Much faster query caching (if needed).
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PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PostScript, RTF, HTML, XML.
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NFS, Samba, Novell.
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Result URLs can be arbitrarily transformed.
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Reranking by date as well as relevance.
More languages
All Western-European (ISO-8859-1) languages: namely Afrikaans, Basque, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Scottish, Spanish, and Swedish are supported.
Greater customizability
Panoptic results are now generated in XML according to a published DTD and converted to HTML for display. Customers and integrators now have total flexibility in customizing result presentation. A description and an example are available.
More flexible administration
Administrative functions have been generalised and simplified; most of them can now be initiated and controlled either from a greatly enhanced graphical interface or by typing simple commands. Panoptic is now even easier to install. Administrators have flexibility in choosing package and filesystem locations.
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Web-based editing of configuration parameters.
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Admin GUI supports all types of collection and all formats.
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Featured pages configurable via GUI.
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More detailed query-log reports:
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Most common queries.
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Queries which produced no results.
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Query processing time, cache hit rate