Features

Full text indexing. Different priority can be configured for body, title, keywords, description of a document.

Supporting all widely used single- and multi-byte character sets, including UTF8, as well as most of the popular Eastern Asia languages.

Automatic document character set and language guesser for about 70 charset/language combinations.

HTTP/1.0 support

FTP support

NNTP support (both news:// and nntp:// URL schemes) in standard and extended modes.

HTTP Proxy support

Local file system indexing support (file: URL schema)

Supporting gzip, deflate, compress content encoding

Built-in database support

Different SQL databases support. Currently MySQL, PostgreSQL, miniSQL, Solid, Virtuoso, InterBase, Oracle, SyBase, MS SQL, iODBC, unixODBC, EasySoft ODBC-ODBC bridge IBM DB2 databases may be used as mnoGoSearch backend.

Search clusters: a possibility to distribute database between several machines.

Basic authorization support (to index password protected areas)

Both HTML documents and plain text files can be indexed

External parsers support for other file types (pdf, ps, doc etc.)

Mirroring features

Stopwords support

"keywords" and "description" META tags support

User defined META tag support.

Reentry capability. You can run few indexers and searching processes at the time

Continual indexing

Indexing depth can be limited

Robots exclusion standard support (both <META NAME="robots"> and robots.txt)

HTML templates to easily customize search results

Boolean query support

Fuzzy search: different word forms, synonyms, substrings

C CGI, PHP3, Perl search frontends

Search on subsection of database

It is very flexible. You can configure mnoGoSearch to run in different modes, including 'ftpsearch mode' (searching through URLs rather than their content),'link validation' (to check site for bad references), 'netminder' (What's new since ...?). There is also extended news support built into the package.