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Date:      Tue, 24 Sep 1996 16:17:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jeremy Sigmon <jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu>
To:        "Andrew N. Edmond" <edmond@shaman.lycaeum.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: WWW Search Engine?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960924161642.16753A-100000@www.hsc.wvu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960924105626.9617T-100000@shaman.lycaeum.org>

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On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Andrew N. Edmond wrote:

> I am trying to provide a WWW search engine on my FreeBSD box, and have
> installed Excite (in it's current incarnation, it doesn't work even with
> the 2.2 kernel - well, it does, but not on a 250meg WWW directory) and am
> told that the new version (coming out in 2 weeks)  will not be
> significantly improved software design-wise.  Harvest is a convoluted
> mess... are there other search engine options for FreeBSD? 
> 
> Andy

On our site we use swish to index it and wwwwais to search this index file.
We reindex every night to remain up to date.
Works great!   and its Fast.
Ours site is only 70 megs, but is growing rapidly.

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> ...........................................................................
> .  Andrew Edmond          .....   American Libertarian       ** VOTE **   .
> ..  edmond@lycaeum.org     .....   End the War on Drugs                  ..
> ...  University of Wyoming  .....   HARRY BROWNE FOR PRESIDENT / 1996   ...
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