From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 12 14:58:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA17694 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 14:58:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from absinthe.i3inc.com (Absinthe.i3inc.com [209.31.147.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA17688 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 14:58:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@absinthe.i3inc.com) Received: (from chris@localhost) by absinthe.i3inc.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) id RAA03337; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 17:58:29 -0500 (EST) To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" Cc: Mark Segal , marcin@v-m.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WWW Search Engine References: From: Chris Shenton Date: 12 Nov 1997 17:58:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger"'s message of Wed, 12 Nov 1997 12:54:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <87vhxxg1nv.fsf@absinthe.i3inc.com> Lines: 24 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Marcin Pasek wrote: > > One of my costumers want's to run his own WWW search engine just like ( > Yahoo, or infoseek...he want's to focus just on one topic and not on > indexing the WWW. Are there any good products out there ready to use out > of the box? The Stronghold product (commercial Apache + SSLeay with RSA crypto license; see www.c2.net) comes with "swish" and "wwwwais". Although it bugs me to pay for SW available on the net for free, at $1000 the thing practically installs itself, comes with a free SSL certificate from Thawte.com, and has the best docs I've seen on Apache and SSL. Depends on how much your time is worth. The admin GUI is kinda nice, too, but I'm an emacs-kind-of-guy... Now your question states "like InfoSeek". This implies a "robot" which goes to remote web sites and pulls their data. Swish, wwwwais, glimpse, and the other products mentioned here only do docs on the local system. Perhaps glimpse can be configged to pull remote docs, I haven't been interested in it since the Harvest Project died and glimpse became licensed tech. (like gated and MERIT radius, but that's another rant)-: