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Re: Search engine for Linux



On Mon, 29 Jul 1996, Eli Algranti wrote:

>> > I am looking for a good search engine for HTML based search for Linux.

>> > Anyone know about a good one ?

>> how about Harvest?

>Does it compile for Linux or are there binaries? I bumped into the 
>Harvest home page by accident and though of installing it just for 
>fun, but reading the online documentention I saw they do not suport 
>Linux (they only list it as might work) and I wouldn't know how to port it.

  Harvest is a big thing.

  It uses a search index called Glimpse for which you will find binaries
on sunsite.

  Glimpse is probably all you need if you want to do local searches: you
will run it once every so often (every day? via a cron job?) to (re)build
the index, then allow the searches via Glimpse of the _index_.

  Harvest adds the capability of several servers sharing their respective
indeces and allowing searches to extend from the local server to the
larger cluster of Harvest servers: think of it as an expanded wais.

  So Glimpse it is.  sunsite has binaries for 3.5, and the original site
has sources for 3.6 which compiles easy under Linux: 
ftp://ftp.cs.arizona.edu/glimpse and http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu

alex




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