JavaScript/Applets for Searching?

[Thomas Dowling]

-----Original Message-----
From: Vince Mariner <vmariner at coaps.fsu.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 10:57 AM
Subject: JavaScript/Applets for Searching?


>
>Hi,
>
>I have created a growing list of bibliographies and would like to make them
>searchable.  Is there a Javascript or Java applet freely available that
>will allow me to do this?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Vince
>


I don't see how a client-side script or applet could succeed very well [on
its own] in searching multiple documents, because it would need to download
all those documents to the client side.  That's why at least a basic "search
this site" type of search engine is included with several commercial web
servers now.  The freebie/non-comm world is at least as well served with
options like Glimpse, WAIS, SWISH-E (obeisance to sunsite:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/), etc.  I note that www.fsu.edu has
something called "HoRSE (Holden's Radical Search Engine)" installed; you may
be able to use that.

Obvious caveat: you probably need CGI scripting access and/or support from
your web administrator to get any of these running.

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu