[WEB4LIB] Search Engines: Buy, Rent, Write?

[Avi Rappoport]

If you're talking about a front end to your library catalog, I defer to others.

If you mean searching HTML or other standard file formats, you may be 
able to request a special section of your University's search engine 
(which seems to be the very nice Phantom application).  Otherwise, 
please check out my site, <http://www.searchtools.com/> for 
information on web site searching from simple Perl scripts to 
high-end institutional search engines.   This is a server function, 
however, and even Java implementations are server-based.

Hope that helps,

Avi

At 9:32 AM -0700 9/1/1999, John Hambleton, Academic Information Services wrote:
>Peace,
>
>This is a request for your opinions:
>
>I want to provide a search engine for our library's web presentation.
>What's the best route to go? Buy one, lease one, or write one?
>I assume the most code is available for UNIX/Linux or WinNT?
>What about Novell?
>
>If writing one wins out--there's writing for the client side (JavaScript or
>Java) or server side (TCL, Perl, C if UNIX; Maybe Visual Basic in WinNT?).
>Which works out best?
>
>Looking for any/all suggestions on the subject. Thanks much in advance.
>Mr. H
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