Search Libraries

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There are many technologies that support Internet Search. This page contains links to some of those technologies.

Full-Text Index Engines

  • Estraier (http://estraier.sourceforge.net/)
  • Ferret (http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/) (ruby port of Lucene)
  • KinoSearch (http://www.rectangular.com/kinosearch/) (perl port of Lucene)
  • Managing Gigabytes (http://www.mds.rmit.edu.au/mg/)
  • Lucene (http://lucene.apache.org/) (Java) / Plucene (http://search.cpan.org/~tmtm/Plucene-1.24/lib/Plucene.pm) (perl port of Lucene)
  • Namazu (http://www.namazu.org)
  • Swish-e (http://swish-e.org/)
  • Swish++ (http://swishplusplus.sourceforge.net/)
  • Xapian (http://xapian.sourceforge.net) (C++)

Additional Links

  • The Case for Lucene (http://www.ideaeng.com/pub/entsrch/issue03/article03.html)
  • Indexer Comparison (http://blogs.nuxeo.com/sections/blogs/florent_guillaume/2005_06_30_comparison_indexers)