SearchBlox Software, a privately held firm with an established customer base of over 300 clients from 30 countries, provides high-performance content search software for a diverse set of applications. SearchBlox search software leverages Apache Lucene, a full-featured text search engine library, as its core search technology, and supports indexing and searching of content including PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents in 37 languages.
SearchBlox is also fully available on Amazon EC2, enabling a cost-effective search solution with no upfront investment in hardware or additional software licenses. According to SearchBlox, “The combination of SearchBlox Replication and the on-demand computing power of Amazon EC2, provide instant scalability and high availability of the search infrastructure and make it the ideal choice for vertical search applications.”