How do I sign up?
The first step is to create an account with password from the www.insuma.de title page. This allows you to login to your personal Control Center. Once you've logged in, you will be able to administer your search engine.
How do I integrate InsumaStarter search into my web site?
Once you created your account, the robot (also known as crawler) will
automatically index your website. This normally takes few minutes,
you can check current status in the Control Center statistics.
While this happens you can integrate the search form into your
website. You can see sample search form in the section "Indexer >
CGI search form" of your Control Center.
You can cut and paste this HTML code into your web page in the desired position. Save the edited page to your web server.
Integrate your search mask (The necessary HTML code is given to you by Insuma.)
What is a search mask?
A search mask is a field at your web side. In this mask a user may enter search
terms arbitrarily. Usually, this mask is placed at the start page of your web
site.
How do I integrate the search mask into my web sites?
You will just have to insert a HTML code fragment into one of your pages. This
code realizes your search mask, in which your users may enter their search terms.
Which pages are searched by InsumaStarter search engine?
The InsumaStarter search engine searches among all HTML pages that are
linked from the start URL you gave to us. InsumaStarter won't jump to
another Internet domain. (i.e., it only indexes those pages that belong to your
web site, unless you set it differently in the Control Center.)
Does InsumaStarter search engine support frames?
Yes, InsumaStarter recognizes frames.
How does Starter search engine handle javascript rich pages?
The demo version can integrate javascript rich pages, presupposed that all URLs to following pages exist with the script. InsumaStarter won't find URLs which are generated by Javascript dynamically.
How does InsumaStarter search engine known that pages
have been changed?
While indexing your pages InsumaStarter requests the dates of the last modification. Only those pages that have been updated will be re-indexed by InsumaStarter.
Does InsumaStarter search engine support robots.txt?
Yes, we do support your entries at robots.txt file. You can find further information
on this quasi standard at http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/norobots.html.
Can I tell InsumaStarter search engine not to index pages or directories?
Yes, you can lock specific files or directories. Those won't be analysed by
our crawler. To do so, you have to create a simple text file (robots.txt) which
you have to put at the main directory of your domain. It must tell our crawler
where not to look for files. You can find an exhaustive article about this at:
http://www.searchcode.de/artikel/robotstxt.shtml. It also contains a robots.txt
generator.
You can find more information on this quasi standard at: http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html
The User-Agent to define in robots.txt is called "InsumaScout/1.15", where
1.15 stands for current version.
Can InsumaStarter search engine search among multiple servers?
Yes, it can. You can add more domains in the Control Center.
What's the meaning of "to index"?
Indexing means looking for relevant content among your web site. InsumaStarter
automatically looks at this in periodic time intervals. It creates a directory
(or copy) of your web site. When a user enters a search term, lookups go to
this copy to find the appropriate page. The search has begun.
Does InsumaStarter search engine support German umlauts?
Not only umlauts, but also German morhological forms will be recognised in German texts (stemming).
Where do I get technical support from?
As a customer of Insuma you obtain technical support via email. We strive to quickly find a solution to all your technical questions.
Can InsumaStarter search engine index my intranet?
The demo version is not able to index intranets.
Can InsumaStarter search engine index password protected pages?
The demo version is not able to index password protected pages.
Which search terms may a user enter?
The user may enter one or several search term. When entering several terms,
all pages are found which consist of at least one of the search terms.
I use frames at my web site. Can I place your search mask such that the search results appear at another frame?
Yes. In order to work, you have to slightly change the HTML code that is given to you by the search engine. Insert between the words FORM and ACTION following:
TARGET="XX"
whereas XX is to be relaced by the name of the frame to which results should be forwarded.
Can I replace your 'search' button with my own image?
Yes. Please modify the HTML code given by Insuma. You should replace:
<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT...
by
<input type="IMAGE" SRC="bild.gif" border ="0" name="search">
Please replace 'bild.gif' by your image file.
I have a Java menu. Does InsumaStarter search engine find pages linked from this menu?
Generally not, but there is a way to bypass it. Please enter all URLs into your
HTML code again, and comment those. The URLs won't be visible to your users,
but the crawler is able to index the pages.
For example:
<!--
<A HREF="../insuma/de/Your_link">Text</a>
-->
My PDF, DOC and RTF files aren't indexed. Why?
Only HTML indexing is activated by default. You should allow other MIME types in the Control Center.
