Open source or free search engines

[Edward Glowacki]

Hmm... interesting, hadn't heard about that one before.  From what
I can see on the website, it doesn't appear to be anything particularly
noteworthy in terms of features.  But at this point, perhaps if it
has at least a sane config file, it might be worth looking at,
because everything else I've seen so far looks like it's going to
be a royal PITA to get running...

Quoted from Bennett, Daniel on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 04:15:23PM -0400:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 01:25:08PM -0400, Edward Glowacki wrote:
> > Anyone have any experience with any of the open source or free
> > search engines, i.e. ht://dig, swish/swish-e/swish++, harvest and
> > glimpse, isearch, or mnogo/udm search?  This would be from an
> > administrative standpoint.  Just curious how easy they are to setup,
> > how easy to customize the results, interfaces to PHP etc., relevance
> > of results, and whatever else you can think of, and I'm interested
> > to see if anyone has any success or horror stories about various
> > products before I spend way too much time trying to get each of them
> > to work... ;)
> > 
> 
> 	I've used ht://dig and something called ASPSeek.  ht was 
> reasonably easy to set up, but could easily be crippled by a large
> database (about 2GB) and the maintenance skyrocketted.  I've had
> a few problems with the ASPSeek server abending but for the most
> part it's fast and stable and can index and search a larger database
> in the fraction of the time it takes ht to do it (I'm still trying to
> figure out what the tradeoff is as the accuracy isn't too bad either).
> 
> 	dan
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