From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Oct 8 15:19:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA03033 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 15:19:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tinker.com (troll.tinker.com [204.214.7.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA02958 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 15:18:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kim@tinker.com) Received: by localhost (8.8.5/8.8.5) Received: by mail.tinker.com via smap (V2.0) id xma001611; Thu Oct 8 17:13:14 1998 Received: by localhost (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA12270; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 17:21:21 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <361D3B0E.A08D4FC2@tinker.com> Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 17:22:06 -0500 From: Kim Shrier Organization: Shrier and Deihl X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Palle Girgensohn CC: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: web site search engines for FreeBSD server? References: <361D1C8A.A8CCDE4E@partitur.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org One of the ISP's I do work for uses ht/Dig. It supports the ISO-Latin-1 character set. Take a look at http://www.htdig.org/ Kim Shrier kim@tinker.com Palle Girgensohn wrote: > > Hello! > > I'd like to know which web site search engine programs you ISP:s are > using with FreeBSD. We are using a modified version of web glimpse right > now, and we are not really satisfied with the it. It refuses to work > well with non-ascii characters, and this is not acceptable for most > non-english websites, since umlauts, etc are not found. Our > modifications fix this, but not quite well. > > Anyway, before we jump in and do a revamp of the web glimpse, I'd like > to hear about other recommmendations. They can be both free or > commercial, but we need to have the program configurable in terms of how > the search results are presented, i.e. we wan't our own design, and they > are probably different for different web sites using the same binary, so > it should preferrably be configurable without altering the source. > > Ideas and recommendations are welcome. Thanks for your time! > > /Palle > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message