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Search Tools Product Reports

SWISH++

Project Description

Mailing list archive

Price: Free (open source) under the GNU License
Platforms: Any Unix with C++. STL and GNU make, and Windows 95/NT/2000 (under Cygwin)

Features

• Indexes local files, and remote web sites using a robot spider based on wget
• Can index and search meta tags including Dublin Core, ALT, attributes
• Indexes a variety of file types such as mail, news, Unix manual pages, PDFs, Postscript, LaTeX and RTF documents, ID3 tags for MP3 files, and Microsoft Office docs.
• Can exclude text within HTML or XHTML elements, such as headers and footers.
• Automatically excludes frequent terms
• The indexing architecture is modular and incremental, including on-the-fly filters before indexing.
• Heavily geared for English
• Queries can use Boolean And, Or, Not, right truncation with wildcard character, stemming.
• Can run as a standalone search server.
• Results display shows title, file URL, size and relevance rank score
• XML DTD and schema formats for search results

Articles & Reviews

• DB2 for Linux: Full Text Searching using SWISH++ Susa.NET, 2000 by Kevin Sangeelee
  Describes how to extract records from a database and index them using SWISH++, so that people can do simple keyword searches on database content. Includes details on the DB2 side, such as replacing the tsearch function, writing the Perl index builder script, and creating a shell script.
  
  
• Implementing search in AOLserver using SWISH++ fifthgate.org, August 2000
  Steps for setting the appropriate configuration, running the make and install as root, indexing, testing the search, setting up the faster daemon mode, connecting to AOLserver, testing and customization. Evaluating the search found that 175 MB of text books were indexed into 13 MB in 5 minutes.
  

Examples

• continuousWave - Boating web site.
  
• University of Stuttgart Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems