in reply to Logical text search

I highly recommend swish-e for search tasks. The core indexing and search engine is in C which is what you want for speed. There is a very nice Perl XS interface called SWISH::API that comes with it, as well as a Perl cgi script. This is the code that runs the search on a lot of open source sites like Apache. There is also htdig which is the GNU search engine. It works well of course but I don't like it as much.

cheers

tachyon

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Re^2: Logical text search
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Oct 13, 2004 at 11:33 UTC
    Heh. Back in 95-96, I used Swish (the original one) for my first Perl project. I ended up hacking on the C code to fix some bugs and enhance it a bit (doubled speed, etc). When I turned my patch back in, he told me that others had improved it 50-fold. I was crushed. *laughs*

    If Swish is still around with a Perl API now, I give it two and a half thumbs up.

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