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FAQ – Search Cloud One

Getting Started with the WordPress Plug-in

Before you can use a search page on your site you need some documents to search! The Plug-in lets you choose the Demo documents for a quick trial, when you are ready Sign Up and create an account, create one or more indexes and upload some documents. See the details here:

How do I create an index?

How do I upload documents for searching?

What documents types can I upload?

Is there a trial period?

Yes, the first 30-days after creating an account is free of the Search Cloud One monthly service charge, you will be charged only for the actual document storage and usage costs incurred on AWS.

Can I see the actual storage and usage charges?

Yes, Log-in and under the Console Menu click on My Account. You will see your actual usage for the last 30 days in real time. Note that your documents are 256-bit encrypted and stored in AWS S3 in two locations for security and availability.

Where do I find out about pricing and limits

Here: Pricing & Limits

How do I cancel my account?

Log-in and under the Console menu choose My Account; at the bottom of the page click the Cancel Account button. Your final usage will be billed to your card, your documents and any remaining indexes will be deleted. Please ensure that you have copies of all your documents. In case of difficulty with your Log-in, please use the Contact Us form instead.

What is the Search Cloud One API for?

The Search Cloud One API is for developers that need a RESTful API to enable them to easily use the dtSearch Engine to create bespoke search pages on websites or mobile applications. Preliminary API documentation is now available here: http://docs.searchcloudone.com/
Please use the Contact Us form for feedback and suggestions on the API.

Last Updated: 07 February 2019

Car Search demo

This demo page was created with the WordPress plug-in, no programming was needed.

It demonstrates the use of facets (Brand, Color, Engine, etc.) that let users drill down through the document collection without having to create a complex search such as Mercedes AND diesel AND sedan.

The files were uploaded as Word documents (.docx) with Properties (Advanced, Custom) entered for each of the facets.

For more information see these links:

Introducing Faceted Search

Enumerable Fields

Other Search Demo pages

Classics – demonstrates basic Boolean search

Legal Search Demo

Categorized Search

Classics Search demo

This demo page was created with the WordPress plug-in, no programming was needed.

It was created by uploading HTML files, the search results display the text between the <title>example</title> tags.

It demonstrates basic Boolean search with results sorted by relevance(default).

Do you know which of the documents in the collection will be found if you search for Homer?
Try these Boolean searches:

homer or shakespeare
homer and shakespeare

More information

Stemming

Synonyms

Other Search Demo pages

Cars Demo – demonstrates facet search

Legal Search Demo demonstrates filters (field search)

Categorized Search

Legal Demo

This demo page was created with the WordPress plug-in, no programming was needed.

It demonstrates the use of filters to narrow the search without having to type a long query such as Title contains (Smith v Cotoco Freezing company) or Date Of Judgment contains (2016/01/21).

Try clicking the filter in the search bar, enter a Date of Judgment of 21 Jan 2016, click Apply.

PDF files were uploaded with custom properties created in Adobe Acrobat called Date of Judgment and Case Title. The files are automatically converted by Search Cloud One to HTML to allow multi-color hit-highlighting.

Try a search for – holden and fashion and ashi – click on the search result to view the document with each word of the search in a different color.

The 20 files in this demo are a small sample donated by Toma Legal Retrieve from their large collection of over 30,000 documents.

Other Search Demo pages

Classics – basic Boolean search

Cars Demo – faceted search

Categorized Search

Categorized Search Demo

This demo page was created with the WordPress plug-in, no programming was needed.

It demonstrates a single search page that can search multiple categories of documents. Each category (Cars, Legal, Classics) has search features to suit the documents metadata.

The 20 files in the Legal category are a small sample donated by Toma Legal Retrieve from their large collection of over 30,000 documents.

How to create a Categorized Search page

Other Search Demo pages

Classics – basic Boolean search

Cars Demo – faceted search

Legal Search Demo