*sigh* Yes, I agree. I created a customized version of Perlfect search for a client (adding PDF indexing, searching for content in different languages and parts of the website, and a couple other things) and the code is not nice to work with, to say the least.

And the worst thing is, working with awful code inspires you to write awful code yourself ;-)

Still, I have to admit it does work nicely.

<ramble>I've long been thinking of creating a modularized pure-perl search engine: Just choose some input modules (local fs, spider, ftp-spider, ...), preprocessors (PDF->text, summarizers, ...) and storage modules (MySQL, dbm, ...) and voilą: your customized search engine is ready. I doubt I will ever have the time, though...</ramble>

In reply to Re: Searching locally with Perlfect with Monkey Httpd by crenz
in thread Searching locally with Perlfect with Monkey Httpd by zentara

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