[WEB4LIB] Web Search Engines

[Avi Rappoport]

At 2:52 PM -0700 9/1/02, garyp at itd.umd.edu wrote:
>We are looking to replace our current search engine for the libraries' web
>site (provided by the campus) with one that is locally run and configured.
>The one we use will need to be open source and run on a Solaris platform.
>I have downloaded htdig, which I like, except that it doesn't support
>phrase searching (though it is suppossed to be available in the beta
>version).
>
>Are there any open source web search engines that you have installed and
>are happy with?  Thanks in advance.

You have more choices than you think: ASPSeek, mnoGoSearch, SWISH-E 
and more will compile and run on Solaris.  Take a look at 
<http://www.searchtools.com/tools/tools-opensource.html> for listings.

Avi
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