[Sunhelp] Search engine

[David Fickes]

James .. thanks for all of your help. I'm hoping that someone
can suggest ... use this or that from the perspective of a GUI
frontend that isn't completely ugly and functional. I don't think
that the backend tools are that much of an issue. I'd rather
have a non-web interface so I don't HAVE to run a webserver as
well but .... I'm open to it.

-d

> 
> On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, David Fickes wrote:
> 
> > Not necessarily in that order. As for my needs, I need something
> > like WAIS which allows me to get a list of email documents in
> > the various folders and then pulls up that specific email message
> > in the folder. WASI does this well but its GUI components don't seem
> > to cut the mustard AND its not getting much development or attention.
> 
> Isearch includes a module to parse mailbox format messages, this also lets
> you index on various header fields (so you can match on foo at bar.baz in the
> From: header only, for instance).
> 
> WAIS is dead, effectively.  FreeWAIS is still alive and kicking but never
> had the quality and speed of the commercial releases.  For your purposes,
> Z39.50 compatability is a nonissue, which is what much of WAIS is (and
> what AOL bought WAIS for in the first place).
> 
> I'm not sure exactly what you're after.  Do you want a GUI querytool as
> well as the text engine itself?  Would a web-driven interface be a
> reasonable possibility?  There are TK frontends to all of the above listed
> engines, but quality is variable.
> 
> > Of course, to have a system that goes over web documents that I've saved
> > and even possibly to somoe outside resources .. that would be terrific.
> 
> All of these are capable of that.  Glimpse is a natural fit for this in
> conjunction with the Harvest Gatherer and comes this way "out of the box". 
> Same goes for WAIS and SWISH (support added recently).  Isearch with my
> SOIF parser will do this as well, but the downside is that it doesn't fit
> into the Harvest Broker model yet (you have to use Isearch query tools
> instead of the Harvest query tools).  If you can find a Z39.50 front-end
> that you really like then you may want to go with Zebra or FreeWAIS, but I
> expect that much of the functionality of Z39.50 will not be needed.
> 
> Harvest seems to be the best spider for small to medium collections that
> I've seen.  Look out for the multithreaded version coming RSN by yours
> truly.
> 
> -James
> 
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