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Re: Search engine for Linux



On Mon, 29 Jul 1996, Alexandre Khalil wrote:

I second that.
Been administrating Harvest for 7 months now,
and it's an overkill.
Glimpse doesn't do ranking. WAIS does - check out the FreeWAIS-SF
project. It supports local locales (The WAIS), meaning you can get
hebrew support. Glimpse supports locales too.

I run both the glimpse and the WAIS as search engines
under the bigger harvest system.
you can check the WAIS interface at:
http://www.gilo.jlm.k12.il/Harvest/brokers/SFtest/

input the hebrew words for science or such.. I haven't indexed much stuff.

There's also SWISH for fast local searches.
check out: www.sils.umich.edu/ITS/Web/SwishHelp/

Oori.

> 
> 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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