Features


Peer-to-peer web search

  • Boolean search: supports the Boolean operators AND (+), OR (|), NOT (-); Parentheses supported.
  • Phrases ("") and NEAR-Operator (within a radius of 10 words) supported.
  • PeerRank-Ranking: better search results through user centered ranking.
  • Search spam filter provides more relevant results.
  • Search independent from diacrytics, umlaut and capitalization.
  • Stemming: better search results through reduction of search term to its stem.
  • Display of Favicons in results.
  • Display historical versions of a web page by linking to the Internet Archive.

Result display

  • Summarization of text with Keyword in Context (KWIC).
  • Keyword highlighting: Search terms are highlighted within the search results.

Desktop search

  • Full text search: FAROO is searching within file names as well as in full text of documents.
  • Instant search: FAROO starts the search immediately after the user begins to type the search term.
  • Supports many document formats: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, HTML, Text, ZIP. Extendible with Microsoft IFilter.
  • Indexation of network drives.
  • Separated local indexes for each Windows user.
  • Incremental indexation through Windows Change Notification.
  • Low resource overhead through monitoring of processor load and user activity.

Full control

  • Exclusion of directories or file types from indexation.
  • Specification of location and maximum memory for index.

User interface

  • Browser based user interface
  • Layout XSL based: Style of search page and result page customizable.
  • Style may be specified as url parameter: Easy integration into other applications, web pages and easy adoption to different output channels as e.g. mobile, PDA, rss-feeds etc.
  • Support of all character sets (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Cyrillic).

Desktop Integration

  • Integration of web search and desktop search.
  • Searches may be saved as Favorites.
  • Integration in Firefox Search Box, IE7 Search Box and IE Search Pane.
  • Simple link integration possible.
  • Start of search also via www.faroo.com (if client is active).
  • Program start also via url protocol handler faroo:// (e.g. for IE search panel).

Simple installation

  • Runs on Windows XP and Vista with installed Microsoft Net Framework.
  • Support of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Safari.
  • Uses HTTP and Port 80: Search also within near all corporate networks despite proxy, router and firewall available.
  • Automatic port forwarding of the router with Universal Plug and Play (UPnP).