SWISH-Enhanced 1.0 Released

Thomas McMillan Grant Bennett bennettt at am.appstate.edu
Sat Aug 16 21:08:57 EDT 1997


Here are two+ questions in reference to this subject.
1) Has anybody used the built-in indexing in Netscape's Enterprise
Server?
   a)If so, are you sataisfied with its results?

2) What server are you  using and does it have its own indexing
capabilities?
   a)If so, are you sataisfied with its results?

Thomas

Roy Tennant wrote:

> SWISH-Enhanced: Fast, Free, and Flexible Web Site Indexing
>
> http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/
>
> The UC Berkeley Library has just released version 1.0 of
> SWISH-Enhanced,
> a powerful and yet easy to setup and use Web site search engine.
> SWISH-E
> is an upgraded version of the popular SWISH software that has been
> freely
> available for years from Enterpise Integration Technologies. The
> author
> of the software (Kevin Hughes) gave permission to the UC Berkeley
> Library
> to implement bug fixes and major new enhancements, such as support for
>
> HTML META tags.
>
> The UC Berkeley Library has also programmed a front-end interface to
> SWISH-Enhanced called AutoSwish that provides one-click indexing of
> any
> site or subdirectory by anyone authorized to create indexes on that
> site.
> It has never been easier to provide a group of Web authors with a
> powerful search capability. It runs under UNIX (tested on Sun Solaris
> and
> Digital UNIX) and AutoSwish requires Perl.
>
> SWISH-E's support of HTML META tags now makes it possible to "catalog"
>
> your Web site, using either developing standards such as the Dublin
> Core
> or a scheme of your own devising. Even the most complex indexes can be
>
> easily created by filling out a one-page Web form and allowing
> AutoSwish
> to take care of the rest. SWISH-E indexes can also be maintained or
> removed by any authorized user who accesses the AutoSwish maintenance
> Web
> page.
>
> The SWISH-E Web site has demonstrations, information and more. We have
>
> also established a SWISH-E electronic discussion for answering
> questions
> and posting updates or useful auxiliary programs.
>
> Roy Tennant
> Digital Library SunSITE
> UC Berkeley Library



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