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FAQs on search hosting
• Why do I need my own Search Engine?
• What is the difference between Picosearch and traditional Search Engines?
• What is "Search Hosting"?
• Is PicoSearch guaranteed? How can I try it out?
• What are the Free Account search results sponsor links?
• How BIG a site can I index?
• How OFTEN is my index updated?
• Will Picosearch work with ASP and CGI?
• Can I search my password protected directories?
• Will Picosearch work in a shopping cart system?
• Can Picosearch search my database?
• Can Picosearch search my secure server (SSL)?
• Can Picosearch search PDFs, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more?
• Can Picosearch do XML? (for search or webservice datafeed)
• What's New at Picosearch?
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FAQs on Picosearch professional and premium vs. Picosearch free
• What are the advantages of the Professional and Premium Plans over the Free Plan?
• Is it easy to upgrade to a Professional or Premium Plan whenever I want?
• Are bulk discounts available, as for resellers?
• How can I hide all references to Picosearch using my purchased plan?
• How flexible is my purchased Plan's template?
• I am using my purchased Plan's template. What if I get dead links?
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FAQs on Picosearch setup
• How do I subscribe to Picosearch?
• How do I install Picosearch on my website?
• How do I align and center the search tools on my web pages?
• Can I create a single search engine for multiple web sites?
• How can I restrict the scope of my index?
• What will Picosearch do with my images and other non-text files?
• How long will Picosearch indexing take?
• Do I have to wait for the Picosearch indexer to finish?
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FAQs on indexing and building the search engine
• How do I update the indexing to include the changes from my website?
• How can I combine sites in my search engine to get a mini web portal effect?
• Can Picosearch index files besides HTML? (PDF, DOC, ASP, etc.)
• Will Picosearch index my document titles, meta tags, and image alts?
• How can I control the skipping of text or links in a document?
• How can I control the adding of text or links in a document?
• How can I control the international language character set used at indexing time?
• Does Picosearch honor the robot exclusion protocol?
• Why didn't Picosearch find all of my documents?
• What does Link out of Bounds mean?
• What can I do to slow the crawler if my server complains?
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FAQs on Picosearching & search results pages
• How can I set my logo in a Free Plan?
• What is "results in context" (also known as concordance), and what are its advantages?
• What is the syntax of a query?
• How can I influence the outcome of a search?
• What are my options for displaying the title and other parts of each search result?
• How do I set the file date for date display and sorting?
• How can I keep certain URLs on top in the Search Results (using promote and demote)?
• What if I want to rotate the top results?
• Can I filter search terms (set stopwords) so that my users can ask questions in whole sentences?
• How much can I customize the results pages?
• How can I pop up the search into a new window?
• How can I initialize the search when it starts up? (ANY/ALL and other defaults)
• How can I redirect my URLs in the search results?
• What can I do about Framesets and Frames!?
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FAQs on advanced search designs
• Can I put a product photo or page icon next to each search result?
• Can I search for my own fields and use multiple inputs with drop-down boxes like a database query?
• Can I divide my search engine into several different sections (partitions)?
• How can I use more than one display language?
• If I'm using frames, how can I put the search box in one frame and have the results appear in another frame?
• How can I stop another site from hijacking my search engine within their frames?
• How can I use a Professional or Premium Plan's template to customize the search box and buttons?
• What template codes can I use to further customize my Professional search results?
• Can I feed the current search to my own ad banner system to get keyword sensitivity?
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FAQs on administrative issues
• I lost my password and/or my account identification! What can I do?
• What is the Picosearch policy on my privacy?
• Are there restrictions on the kinds of websites I can index?
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If you have a question that we didn't cover well, please tell us so that we can answer it for you and anyone else who might be wondering too!
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