[TriLUG] code for search engine

[Kevin Gamiel]

Jim Ray wrote:
> I hired an intern from the English department at NC State this semester to
> write some copy for my web site.  He recommended putting in some code to do
> a local search.  I am partial to LAMP yet otherwise open to suggestion. 
> Does anyone have a recommendation on some code that I can plop into my web
> site for a local search function?  It would be way cool to do full text
> searching.  I played with PHPDig to no avail.  Maybe it is looking for
> *.html and all my stuff is *.shtml.  I dunno.  Any help gratefully
> appreciated.

Amberfish.  Written in C/C++, very fast, handles large amounts of data 
(tested with 1/2 TB, 25M records for TREC).   Also, happens to be 
written by an esteemed member of this group:

http://www.etymon.com/tr.html

Kevin

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