Search Features — FindPlus® Distributed Searching Related article:  Indexed vs. Unindexed Searching:  Distributed Searching Email Filtering Security Classifications Forensics Through FindPlus, a single search request can span multiple local and remote locations. For example, a single search request could span multiple indexes residing on a hard drive, a local area network, an Intranet server, and even a publicly-available Web server. The same search request can then return comprehensive search results from all locations, ranking all retrieved files by relevance, and instantly re-sorting, for example, by file date. FindPlus will display all retrieved files with highlighted hits (as well as HTML, XML and PDF links, images and formatting), even if the files reside on remote servers. FindPlus distributed searching uses an XML-based protocol for streaming search results, making it easy for developers to integrate this feature into applications. Using related technology, the dtSearch Spider embedded in multiple dtSearch products supports indexing with instant searching of combined remote Web site and locally searchable data.   In addition to PDF, HTML, XML, MS Office documents, ZIP repositories, and the like, the dtSearch Spider can also index and search dynamically-generated content, such as ASP/ASP.NET, MS CMS and MS SharePoint. The Spider can follow links vertically within a URL, or horizontally across URLs, to any specified level of depth. The Spider supports public sites, secure content HTTPS sites, password-accessible sites and forms-based authentication. After a search, the Spider provides integrated relevancy-ranking and display of local and Spidered content, including WYSWYG display with highlighted hits of Web-ready content.   The dtSearch product line can instantly search terabytes of text across a desktop, network, Internet or Intranet site. dtSearch products also serve as tools for publishing, with instant text searching, large document collections to Web sites or CD/DVDs. over two dozen indexed, unindexed, fielded and full-text search options highlights hits in HTML, XML and PDF, while displaying embedded links, formatting and images converts other file types — word processor, database, spreadsheet, email and full-text of email attachments, ZIP, Unicode, etc. — to HTML for display with highlighted hits built-in Spider adds a third-party or other Web site (public, secure content, password accessible, etc.) to your searchable database Spider supports Web-based content (HTML, PDF, XML, etc.) as well as dynamically-generated content (ASP.NET, MS CMS, SharePoint, etc.) General supported file types SQL and similar data sources