in reply to looking for a good Perl-way for implementing website search

Swish-e is great and has an easy Perl API. If you already know it, I don't see any reason to use something else.
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Re^2: looking for a good Perl-way for implementing website search
by punkish (Priest) on May 09, 2006 at 15:16 UTC
    I don't see any reason to use something else
    I know Swish-e, and yes, it is great. It is, however, not "the simplest thing that could work." Or, is it?

    Since it is a C program, I can't implement it on a web host unless they have it installed there (although, my new host -- http://www.dreamhost.com -- does seem to allow compiling ones own programs).

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    when small people start casting long shadows, it is time to go to bed
      It's almost certainly simpler than any of the others you mentioned. They are more like toolkits for building a custom search engine. Swish-e is ready-to-use and complete.