Re: Search box and http://search.debian.org
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007, David Claughton wrote:
> Bastian Venthur wrote:
>
>> The problem was (or is) that it requires java so I dropped that idea
>> again. But maybe another p2p search engine with similar features but
>> without a non-free dependency could be an alternative to google?
>
> I was wondering if Hyper Estraier (http://hyperestraier.sourceforge.net/)
> might fit the bill? I can't say I've used it, but I had a look at the
> website and it looks like a possibility - it's LGPL, written in C and has
> P2P and multilingual features (don't know if this extends to content
> negotiation, 'fraid I didn't dig that deeply). Also it's already packaged
> for Debian.
>
> Might be worth a look?
HyperEstraier is actually what the BTS is using for full text
searching now; given hardware to set it up on, it wouldn't be all too
difficult to index the websites too.
Don Armstrong
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