Publisher's Description:
Active Search Engine is a feature rich web server application that allows you to easily build a Yahoo style web directory on your web site. Its powerful features let you build from a small targeted audience thematic directory with a few hundred links to a fully commercial general audience directory with millions of listings with amazingly fast searching and browsing capabilities.
Active Search Engine is fully customizable and you can set it up as a completely automatic search engine with no need for administrative intervention or as a manual directory where the administrator has complete control for link and rating approval. It features an easy to use, yet very powerful user interface which includes a good looking and appealing interactive web site that will keep your visitors coming back.
Active Search Engine has a built-in advertising system which allows you to sell advertising including banners, top featured listings and keyword rankings to easily start generating revenue from your search engine. It also features a complete Mailing List builder and Newsletter Power Mailer® to manage and send opt-in personalized or bulk mailings to thousands or even millions of users with the click of a button.
Active Search Engine is a new generation of web server applications. It actually includes so many features that you will have to purchase so many different applications and not even come close to the power and functionality offered by this complete and exclusive web application.
Quick Features:
• Fully Interactive User Interface. Appealing fully interactive Yahoo style user interface and complete website automatically built for you by the software. Users interact with your engine in real time searching for webs, voting for sites, browsing through categories, visiting your top links section or clicking on links. Every user interaction or search engine administration action is reflected automatically on the directory itself.
• Unlimited Number of Listings and Categories. Because Active Search Engine is a database-based solution, it allows an unlimited number of links and categories to be added to your directory.
• Active Search Engine Power Search. Users can search the web directory by just entering words or word phrases in the search box and clicking on Search. From a few hundred to millions of simultaneous searches, Active Search Engine Power Search® will perform fast and accurate searches querying the resource database and looking in all fields including a listing title, description, keywords and web addresses. The search results ranking is configurable by the search engine administrator and listings can be ordered by user ratings, number of votes, hits, alphabetic title, date, featured listings and other criteria.
• Top Links section and Ranking system. You will soon find out that your search engine Top Links section will be one of your site™s most visited areas. Link owners and visitors alike will revisit these rankings again and again and will try to score higher on your search engine™s Top Links rankings.
• User Ratings. Search engine visitors can rate any listing from 1 to 5 stars and enter comments about the particular web site making your site more interactive and adding content to your site. Ratings averages and number of votes will be automatically calculated by Active Search Engine voting system.
• Adding new web sites. Search engine visitors can easily add their site to your search engine through a simple web form. Active Search Engine will automatically check if the web url and email entered is correct and check for any offensive words deciding whether or not a link should be accepted. This feature alone will save the search engine administrator thousands of hours and at the same time help end users to index their web pages correctly, a feature that you will not find in any other search engine software application.
• Automatic Email Notification. A new web site has been added or approved, a wrong url address was entered? You name it, Active Search Engine will take care to automatically email the user for you. The mailing system is fully configurable, will keep users coming back to your site and there is optional advertising space on all your emails as well. When you have many users interacting with your site, Active Search Engine will be able to automatically send thousands or even millions of emails behaving in fact as a very powerful marketing engine.
Requirements:
Windows server or windows hosting account
