And for users familiar with information retrieval, AppleSearch supports the full range of Boolean operators. The feature-rich AppleSearch search engine, from Personal Library Software, processes the request and finds the relevant documents by looking not only for how often the user's words occur, but also for how close the words appear together. To use the Internet capability of AppleSearch, a server connection to the Internet is required. An information source can be any shared folder on an AppleSearch server volume and can reside on any locally mounted volume such as a hard disk drive or CD-ROM drive. Incremental indexing can be scheduled on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis.
Index files are approximately the same size as the text in source documents.
If the server is connected to the Internet, the server administrator can select up to 100 WAIS servers listed on WAIS directory servers to appear to users as information sources. AppleSearch automatically scans for new WAIS servers. Reporters and updates Reporters contain search criteria defined by the user. Once saved, they reside on the server and can be scheduled to search and retrieve information relevant to the search request on a periodic basis from both local and Internet information sources. Security Provides password protection to the server.