[WEB4LIB] site search engines

[George Bray]

At 3:11 AM -0700 12/4/00, Yvonne Reynolds wrote:
>Apologies for cross-posting.
>I would like to install a search engine on our web site.   Does 
>anyone have comments on htdig and webglimpse?  We run our site of 
>FreeBSD/Apache and are looking for a free, easy to install and 
>maintain search engine.

When we were looking for a search engine one of the requirements was 
the ability to index multiple sites. Searches needed to be conducted 
across all sites, with the results pointing directly to the site in 
question (not via some redirector).

htdig does this for us very well.  It can crawl many sites over the 
web and through the filesystem.  It's also very customizable for 
presenting multiple pages of ranked results.

It's quite easy to install and requires no maintenance.  It indexes 
our sites once a day (they change often) from a cron job, taking only 
a few minutes.

http://linkalarm.com/search/

	George

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