Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 22:11:30 -0400 From: Gary Schrock <root@eyelab.psy.msu.edu> To: tom@inna.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: www.freebsd.org search engine Message-ID: <199804200218.WAA14418@eyelab.psy.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980419220658.12500@tyger.inna.net>
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At 10:06 PM 4/19/98 -0400, you wrote: >I'm just wondering what search engine FreeBSD.org is using. >Gotta find an indexing search engine. The perl ones that search on the fly >kinda chew up CPU time like its free or something. As far as I could tell by looking at the scripts that it uses to do the searching it's using freewais-sf. After a lot of work I was able to get freewais-sf working for a site I maintain, and I have to admit it does work fairly well. Setting it up in the first place is not exactly trivial too (especially since there's a bug in the program for the file format I use). There is a port for freewais-sf, but figuring out the configuration files for document types isn't exactly trivial (although if you're lucky you can get away with one of the predefined ones, thankfully I was able to coerce my data into one of those formats). Once you get it working it's pretty decent though. Gary Schrock root@eyelab.msu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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