Search tab

This tab is shown in Documents, Organizer and Search window and allows you to search for the documents and resources in Ad Annihilator cache. Search may be performed by a number of parameters: address, size, date, text and some others.

There are following criteria by which search could be done:

• "Address" - mask for Internet address (URL) of the document or resource including protocol part (http:// or https://). See Understanding masks for information on mask syntax. For example, to search for all documents on adannihilator.com site, enter "*adannihilator.com*" mask here. If this field is left empty, documents with any addresses are sought for.
  If "Add wildcards automatically" option is checked, Ad Annihilator will add * mask symbols automatically to the start and end of the mask before search so that you do not have to type them manually. In the example above, if this option was checked, it would be sufficient to enter only "adannihilator.com" to search for all documents containing this phrase in their address. If we enter "adannihilator.com" and uncheck this option, Ad Annihilator will search for "adannihilator.com" document and find nothing as protocol part is missing. To make it search exactly for "adannihilator.com" document (home page of Ad Annihilator site), we would have to type "http://adannihilator.com" and uncheck this option. Note that this option applies to Text criteria as well;

• "Text" - full-text search expression for the content of the documents or resources. This field turns Ad Annihilator in your own offline search engine that is able to  find documents in the cache by their content. See Understanding full-text search expressions to learn about expression syntax and full-text search capabilities. If this field is left empty, documents content is not analyzed when searching.
  If "Add wildcards automatically" option is checked, Ad Annihilator will add * mask symbols automatically to the start and end of each word in the expression before search. This facilitates your expression entry in case you want to search not for exact words but for words that contain certain sequences of characters within them;

• "Search for" - kinds of resources to search for. There are following choices available:
  • Documents - search for documents. Documents are primary pages you visit when browsing;

  • Resources - document resources, such as pictures, scripts, stylesheets, etc. that are downloaded altogether with documents;

• "Search for type" - types of documents or resources to search for. There are following choices:

  • All - any documents;

  • Text - text documents which content type was reported as "text/html" or "text/plain" by the web server;

  • Image - images which content type was reported as starting from "image/" by the web server;

  • PDF - PDF (Portable Document Format) documents which content type was reported as "application/pdf" by the web server. This documents can be read by Adobe Acrobat Reader (see www.adobe.com for more information);

  • Flash - Macromedia Flash animations which content type was reported as "application/x-shockwave-flash" by the web server;

  • Other - documents and resources not encompassed by the specific types described above;

• "Size" - click here to expand and enable document size-related criteria controls:
  • From - the minimal size a document or resource must have in order to be found. If it is left empty, no minimal size restrictions are enforced during search;
  • To - the maximum size a document or resource must have in order to be found. If it is left empty, no maximum size restrictions are enforced during search;
  Size can be set either in bytes or kilobytes which is specified by selection in the list to the right of size text boxes. To search for resources having size within the specified range, enter both minimum and maximum limits.
  To disable search by size, collapse this section by clicking on its name;
• "Date modified" - click here to expand criteria controls related to document modification date:
  • From - start date of the modification date range being sought;
  • To - end date of the modification date range being sought;
  To disable search by date modified, collapse this section by clicking on its name;
• "Date downloaded" - click here to expand criteria controls related to document download date:
  • From - start date of the download date range being sought;
  • To - end date of the download date range being sought;
  To disable search by download date , collapse this section by clicking on its name;
• "Advanced" - click here to expand advanced search parameters:
  • "Search in titles only" - turns on full-text search in document titles only. Document titles are displayed in the browser title bar (it is taken from <TITLE> HTML tag). Other document content is skipped during search;
  • "Search in scripts and tags as well" - makes Ad Annihilator to search for text not only in document visible text but in page scripts and inside HTML tags as well. This is useful for web developers to search for certain scripts and specific tag data;
  • "Max results" - enter the maximum number of documents and resources that must be found. Search through large number of documents and resources may take some time, and this option limits it by number of found documents. If this field is left empty, all found documents are returned;
  To disable advanced search options, collapse this section by clicking on its name.

After you entered search criteria, press Go button to start search. Search window will open showing search progress. When search is completed, Search results tab opens with the list of the found documents and resources.

To cancel search process press either Stop button in Search tab or Cancel button in Search window. If you cancel search process, Search results tab will show all the documents found by the moment of cancellation.