Re: [LUG] HT DIG

[Roland Tarver <roland.tarver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cheers Steve,

More on this l8rh.

best wishes
roly

Steve Marvell wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 09:50:25AM +0000, Roland Tarver wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Is HTDig still the best OSS for site searches?
> >    
>
> Depends on your interpretation of best.
>
> It's formatting is quite flexible, it's dead easy to install.
>
> It is a inclusion only check, however, which means no relevance is
> applied. You don't get control over the searching mechanism.
>
> I don't think it applies any Stemming algorithms. Its list of synonyms
> is pants. 
>
>  
>
> > Is it still being maintained/developed, are there any alternatives?
> >    
>
> As far as I know it is, however, the last release was over a year
> ago.
>
> An alternative is to write one yourself, which takes no time at all.
>
> If this is for the directory, then I'm sure that htdig is throwing up
> some weird results, due to the number of index pages in existance.
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
>
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