From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Oct 9 06:27:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA01118 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 06:27:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hecate.webcom.com (hecate.webcom.com [209.1.28.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA01112 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 06:27:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from graeme@echidna.com) Received: from kigal.webcom.com (kigal.webcom.com [209.1.28.57]) by hecate.webcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id GAA25859; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 06:27:47 -0700 Received: from [199.183.207.108] by inanna.webcom.com (WebCom SMTP 1.2.1) with SMTP id 4460709; Fri Oct 09 06:25 PDT 1998 Message-Id: <361E3888.1303@echidna.com> Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 09:23:36 -0700 From: Graeme Tait Organization: Echidna X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Saab Cc: Palle Girgensohn , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: web site search engines for FreeBSD server? References: <361D1C8A.A8CCDE4E@partitur.se> <361DBFAD.4321@echidna.com> <19981009015100.A1730@mu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Paul Saab wrote: > > have you looked at ht://dig? (http://www.htdig.org/) No, and it may be interesting for some things. Does it run under FreeBSD? However, some of my applications may not fit it. They involve indexing large numbers of files (hundreds of thousands). All the files reside on the machine that does the indexing. Glimpse does a good job of this, building compact indices from the filesystem level (i.e., the webserver is not involved), and providing fast searches. Large individual files are handled also. As I said below the downside is license fees, plus (as the original poster mentioned) a restricted character set. > Graeme Tait (graeme@echidna.com) wrote: > > 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). -- Graeme Tait - Echidna To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message