From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Oct 8 23:51:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA09137 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 23:51:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from priscilla.mu.org (priscilla.mu.org [206.152.116.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA09132 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 23:51:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@priscilla.mu.org) Received: (from paul@localhost) by priscilla.mu.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA01734; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 01:51:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from paul) Message-ID: <19981009015100.A1730@mu.org> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 01:51:00 -0500 From: Paul Saab To: Graeme Tait , Palle Girgensohn Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: web site search engines for FreeBSD server? References: <361D1C8A.A8CCDE4E@partitur.se> <361DBFAD.4321@echidna.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <361DBFAD.4321@echidna.com>; from Graeme Tait on Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 12:47:57AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org have you looked at ht://dig? (http://www.htdig.org/) paul Graeme Tait (graeme@echidna.com) wrote: > 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! > > > Well, I was hoping there would be a flood of replies here as we will soon be > in the market for web site search tools too. We presently use Glimpse > extensively on another host, but the U. of Arizona license fee for commercial > use on our own server seems excessive (what with FreeBSD and free Apache). > > Have you considered Swish (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/), which I > haven't tried to install yet, but which is one of our candidates? The docs do > indicate that special characters are accommodated. See > http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/Manual/qanda.html . > > One minus: "There is no phrase indexing capability for Swish-e." > > > -- > Graeme Tait - Echidna > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message