RE: [cobalt-developers] Search Engine Recommendations Research

["Daniel Ouellet" <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the information.

As far as the MySQL, the reason is that I feel very comfortable with it and
I love the PHP interface to it. It is also very fast and I am already using
it for a lots of other stuff. Look like logical to keep one standard if
possible.

Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Robert G.
Fisher
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 11:30 AM
To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] Search Engine Recommendations Research


On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 01:30:17AM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
> 1) Index the content for a search on a web site. So, this will search and
> index html pages of a specific web site.

I prefer to use swish-e http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/
Very nice and very configurable.  Works fairly well on our
Solaris stations, RedHat and Slackware intel boxes, as well
as on the RaQ and RaQ2.

It stores the indices in it's own format rather than a foreign
RDBMS, but it includes a small program you can use to query
the db and plenty of perl scripts exist to parse form and the
output to return very nice search results.

It allows you to specify which directories will be kept in which
index file and supply multiple search configurations if desired
so as to exclude certain types of files or directory paths, very
useful for excluding all the _vti* directories and files created
by FrontPage server extensions.

> I would like the end result of the search engine to be based on MySQL as
the
> core engine.

Any particular reason you want to use MySQL?  The database format does
not usually matter so much as building all the indices -- which you
have to do no matter what engine you use...Nor does the engine really
have anything to do with the way your output looks.

--
Robert G. Fisher		     NEOCOM Microspecialists Inc.
System Administrator/Programmer      (540) 666-9533 x 116

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