modperl-search_engines

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To: Ged Haywood <ged@www2.jubileegroup.co.uk>
From: Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>
Subject: Re: search engine module?
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 23:57:11 +0800

Ged Haywood wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Perrin Harkins wrote:
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>>Plus lots of other stuff like Glimpse and Swish which interface to C-based
>>>engines.
>>>
>>I've had good luck with http://swish-e.org/2.2/
>>
> 
> Please make sure that it's possible to do a plain ordinary literal
> text string search.  Nothing fancy, no case-folding, no automatic
> removal of puctuation, nothing like that.  Just a literal string.
> 
> Last night I tried to find "perl -V" on all the search engines
> mentioned on the mod_perl home page and they all failed in various
> interesting ways.
> 
> If somebody knows what I'm doing wrong, please post.

the engine at mathforum does a great job, it's the best mailing list 
archive search engine that I've ever seen, in regards to searching Perl 
strings and code in general. Just make sure to use the right options at:
http://mathforum.org/discussions/epi-search/modperl.html

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To: Daniel Sully <daniel@electricrain.com>
From: Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>
Subject: Re: search engine module?
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:54:46 +0800

Daniel Sully wrote:

> Is the engine used at the math forum publiclicly available?


I don't know. Why don't you ask them :)


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To: Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com>
From: Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>
Subject: Re: search engine module?
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 00:56:28 +0800

Kee Hinckley wrote:

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> People have been talking about backend search engines, but when I saw 
> the subject I was thinking more about front end classes.  In 
> particular, last time I looked there wasn't a standard class for 
> integrating local search engines into your code.  I ended up making a 
> WWW::Search, but you kind of have to tweak the meaning of some 
> values.  If anyone is interested I ought to release it.  It's a 
> trivial example for very small web sites (it provides google-like 
> search syntax, and backends it with grep).


You should have checked CPAN first: There is a load of WWW::Search:: 
modules there.


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To: Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com>
From: Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>
Subject: Re: search engine module?
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:36:02 +0800

Kee Hinckley wrote:

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> At 12:56 AM +0800 10/19/01, Stas Bekman wrote:
> 
>>Kee Hinckley wrote:
>>
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>>>People have been talking about backend search engines, but when I 
>>>saw the subject I was thinking more about front end classes.  In 
>>>particular, last time I looked there wasn't a standard class for 
>>>integrating local search engines into your code.  I ended up making 
>>>a WWW::Search, but you kind of have to tweak the meaning of some 
>>>values.  If anyone is interested I ought to release it.  It's a 
>>>trivial example for very small web sites (it provides google-like 
>>>search syntax, and backends it with grep).
>>>
>>
>>You should have checked CPAN first: There is a load of WWW::Search:: 
>>modules there.
>>
> 
> Yes.  But my point is that they are all *offsite* searches as far as 
> I can tell.  What I wanted was a standard interface to a local search 
> engine.

Right, my point is that WWW::Search namespace is taken :)

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