Using the Zoom Search Engine Indexer

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The Zoom Indexer is a Windows application that scans your entire website and indexes the content and information it finds on each page. It will then create all the files you need to upload to your website, for you to have a running search engine.

The Zoom Indexer is a part of the Zoom Search Engine package that provides powerful custom search functionality for your website or CD-ROM.  For more information on the overall package, please see the "Introduction" and "How Zoom works" sections.

The Indexer has two main modes of operation:

Spider mode
Offline mode

It also has a choice of four different platform options (PHP, ASP, Javascript, or CGI).

For more information on selecting a suitable platform, see Which search script platform should I use?

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Getting started? First time users should follow the Step-by-step wizard to guide them through the main options. Click on the magic wand in the toolbar to begin. We would also recommend reading the rest of the Overview chapter, in particular the "What should I do first?" section.