The JXtended team is proud to announce the availability of Finder 2.0 Beta, the newest release of our Advanced Search system for Joomla 1.5.

Finder is a powerful search engine that gives you access to technology used by major search engines like Google™ and Yahoo!™. Finder 2.0 features a completely redesigned core engine for better search results, AJAX powered search suggestions based on the actual content of your site, an expanding selection of search plugins, and much more.

JXtended Catalog was one of the first truly flexible content systems (typically called CCKs nowadays) available for Joomla 1.5.  It was first developed in 2006 and released for sale in 2007 as one of the first commercial GPL products available for Joomla.  It filled a wide gap in the Joomla extensions market for a directory that supported searchable custom fields, a full depth category tree and also the ability to map items to multiple categories.

JXtended's Louis Landry has been selected as Joomla's Most Valued Person in the Packt 2009 Open Source CMS Most Valued People awards, and deservedly so.  Louis has contributed to many aspects of the Joomla project and is currently one of the coordinators responsible for overseeing development of the software.

The staff at JXtended wish to congratulate Louis on his well deserved achievement.  Well done!