SearchTools BlogSearchTools Blog - LiveJournal.comFluid Dynamics Search - SearchTools Report Updated- February 16, 2007 The Fluid Dynamics Search Engine is a Perl CGI script that performs nicely on sites below 10,000 pages. It can crawl links or read a local file system to gather text, HTML and PDF files, and includes extensive controls for excluding pages. Search supports Internet query operators, Boolean operators and quotes. There's an option to allow public submission of URLs for topical portal search, and the admin is all done via browser interface. Only $40, runs on Unix, Windows, Mac OS X, and the...http://searchtools.livejournal.com/72861.html Alkaline - SearchTools Report Updated- February 15, 2007 Vestris Alkaline, from Switzerland, has been around for a long time but is still very actively updated. Running on Unix and Windows NT, it has a web crawler than can handle multiple sites, with extensive rules options for including and excluding pages by url and extension. It is mainly focused on web pages but external filters allow indexing of XML, PDF, Microsoft Word, WordPerfect and other documents. Can handle password and Windows NTLM access control, but displays all results (no...http://searchtools.livejournal.com/72672.html i411 - SearchTools Report Updated- February 14, 2007 i411 is a faceted metadata search and browse engine, capable of scaling to very large deployments, such as the DexOnline yellow pages site, which uses it for both search results and browse navigation. The most recent version adds a web crawler to the local file and database connectors, a natural language module that can extract entities from queries and provide concept-based spellcheck, more flexibility in the search flow, and a SiteOptimizer analytics and reporting module to expose site...http://searchtools.livejournal.com/72434.html |