Peer-to-peer web search

* Boolean search: supports the Boolean operators AND (+), OR (|), NOT (-); Parentheses supported.
* Phrases ("") and NEAR-Operator (within a radius of 10 words) supported.
* PeerRank-Ranking: better search results through user centered ranking.
* Search spam filter provides more relevant results.
* Search independent from diacrytics, umlaut and capitalization.
* Stemming: better search results through reduction of search term to its stem.
* Display of Favicons in results.
* Display historical versions of a web page by linking to the Internet Archive.

Result display

* Summarization of text with Keyword in Context (KWIC).
* Keyword highlighting: Search terms are highlighted within the search results.

Desktop search

* Full text search: FAROO is searching within file names as well as in full text of documents.
* Instant search: FAROO starts the search immediately after the user begins to type the search term.
* Supports many document formats: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, HTML, Text, ZIP. Extendible with Microsoft IFilter.
* Indexation of network drives.
* Separated local indexes for each Windows user.
* Incremental indexation through Windows Change Notification.
* Low resource overhead through monitoring of processor load and user activity.

Full control

* Exclusion of directories or file types from indexation.
* Specification of location and maximum memory for index.

User interface

* Browser based user interface
* Layout XSL based: Style of search page and result page customizable.
* Style may be specified as url parameter: Easy integration into other applications, web pages and easy adoption to different output channels as e.g. mobile, PDA, rss-feeds etc.
* Support of all character sets (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Cyrillic).

Desktop Integration

* Integration of web search and desktop search.
* Searches may be saved as Favorites.
* Integration in Firefox Search Box, IE7 Search Box and IE Search Pane.
* Simple link integration possible.
* Start of search also via www.faroo.com (if client is active).
* Program start also via url protocol handler faroo:// (e.g. for IE search panel).

Simple installation

* Runs on Windows XP and Vista with installed Microsoft Net Framework.
* Support of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Safari.
* Uses HTTP and Port 80: Search also within near all corporate networks despite proxy, router and firewall available.
* Automatic port forwarding of the router with Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)