You're right that there are few small options for a search engine, but that's because user expectations for the vast majority of applications are difficult to meet with a small scale engine. Are your users really going to stand for non-stemmed searching? You've done this before, so of course I'll take your word for it, but that definitely puts you in the minority.

All the search engine libraries use Lingua::Stem or Lingua::Stem::Snowball, because it would make zero sense to reinvent that wheel. They only come in one package -- Lingua::Stem installs Lingua::Stem::Snowball -- which is mildly unfortunate because Snowball is XS and you need a C compiler. However, I can testify that it's very difficult to write a search engine which scales well to extremely large document collections in pure Perl.

--
Marvin Humphrey
Rectangular Research ― http://www.rectangular.com

In reply to Re: HTML::Index module -- what's the story? by creamygoodness
in thread HTML::Index module -- what's the story? by Cody Pendant

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