SWISH vs. Webinator

[John R. Little]

I've looked at a couple search engines recently and just 
about settled on Thunderstone's Webinator 
<http://www.thunderstone.com/webinator/>.  It's a nice 
product, easy to install (UNIX and NT only), free if you 
index less than 10,000 pages, has an easily understandable 
end-user query interface (with help pages 
<http://www.thunderstone.com/webinator/help.html> 
maintained by Thunderstone), has a lot of command line 
options, and can be pointed at other web sites (helps me 
b/c some of the Libraries web pages are on different 
servers).  yatta, yatta, yatta. In short, I like it a lot. 
But before I settle on this, I like to hear from some of 
the SWISH users (particularly if they have used Webinator) 
about the advantages of SWISH.  

Both SWISH and Webinator are written in C so tweaking the 
code could be problematic if you're not interested in 
mucking around with the C code (which I am not).  Right 
there, I see a clear advantage to using WebGlimpse since 
much of the mucking can be done with the PERL code. 

Anyway, any general comments on Webinator vs. SWISH would 
be great.  Comments about the advantages for SWISH would 
also be good. Thanks.


--John-------------------------------------------------+
  John R. Little       Web Developer/Systems Librarian |
  Perkins Library * Duke University * Durham, NC       |
  VOICE: (919) 660-5932            Email: jrl at duke.edu |
              http://www.duke.edu/~jrl/                |
+------------------------------------------------------+