links, media links and thumbnails are active linked. As stated in chapter Introduction , this search engine uses some PHP libraries and extensions. When opening the Settings interface, the existence of these libraries are tested by software, and in case that a library is not part of the server environment, the according option is not presented . . .
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and accents and also to simplify user input, this mod also delivers results that are like the query input. So something as the Did you mean facility is already integral part of this search method. Link search Invoked by starting the query input with ' site: ', the user is enabled to search for all pages of a domain. It is not necessary to . . .
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In order to support international languages, Sphider-plus stores all data UTF-8 coded into the database. But some languages require some special attention. For example the Greek language is supported as following. In Admin backend there are some special settings, controlling the Greek language support: - Support Greek language. Offers . . .
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the beginning of a tag, and it won't render tables until the </table> tag of the outermost table is seen. - some versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer only start to display the page after they have received 256 bytes of output. As progress was not presented during index / re- index procedure, waiting for results became a pain in the . . .
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will not be presented again. The 'Debug mode' adds a comma and a blank to each keyword. So, debug output will be something like: New keywords found here: abc, defg, hijklm, nop, . . . As Sphider-plus also indexes special characters like commas and dots, keywords like defg, and hijklm. will be presented like: New keywords found here: abc, defg,, . . .
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of words Warning: This option should be used with special care and not be activated for non ISO-8859 charsets. some special characters as part of the word ending might be erased by accidental. Top 13. Media search for images, audio streams and videos 13.1 Media indexing Index of media files is enabled by separated Admin settings for: - Images . . .
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settings also allow selecting whether embed and nested media files should be indexed. This was implemented, as some server hide their media files as embedded objects. Another Admin setting is used to enable indexing of external hosted media content. When linked by the currently indexed page, also external media files will be indexed. This . . .
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40 Kbytes of RAM. So, a cache of 2 MByte could hold the results for 40 to 50 'Most Popular Queries'. After some time of usage, it might be helpful to observe the information given in 'Clear' section of Admin. Count of result files in cache and consumed memory space are presented. Depending on personal preferences, consumed result size and . . .
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respect to the personal requirements. As Sphider-plus has to survive also in Shared Hosting applications there are some limitations for multiple database support: - It is not possible to cooperate with a cluster of databases. - Master/Slave Replications are not supported, because the MySQL configuration file my.cnf is not accessible. - Sharding . . .
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