Search Engines



Top: Computers: Open Source: Software: Internet: Search Engines  (15)

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  • Arachnode.net - A .NET web crawler written in C# using SQL 2005 and Lucene. Documentation and online demonstration.
  • BDDBot - A web robot, search engine and web server written in Java and available under GPL. Includes related resources. [Project no longer actively updated]
  • DataparkSearch Engine Tool - Open source search engine tool released under GPL and designed to organize search within a website, group of websites, intranet or local system.
  • Egothor - A cross-platform, full-featured text search engine written entirely in Java. It can be configured as a standalone engine, metasearcher, peer-to-peer HUB or used as a class library.
  • Grub - Open source, cross-platform distributed crawler. FAQ, documentation and a support forum.
  • KDE GUISearch - A tool for finding code by looking at the applications' GUI text messages (e.g., "Undo") and returning associated callbacks/slots (e.g., slotUndo()). Allows searching the KDE project CVS repository as a live demonstration.
  • Locust - Specifically designed for knowledge area or corporate search, written in C++.
  • Nutch - Effort to implement a prototype of an open source web-search engine.
  • Open Search Server - Web crawler based on Lucene, Apache Tomcat, Java Server Faces and JBoss RichFaces. News, product information, documentation, download, and discussion forums.
  • OpenWebSpider - An open source web spider and search engine. Includes demo, source code and screenshots.
  • Search Tools Listing: Open Source Search Engines - A listing of open source indexers, including links to related articles.
  • Sphider - A lightweight search engine in PHP. Includes details of features, documentation, support forum, and download. [GPL]
  • Sucubus - Lets users search and download music and videos from the Web.
  • The Xapian Project - Open source search engine library written in C++, with bindings to allow use from other languages as well.
  • YaCy - A distributed Web crawler and caching HTTP/HTTPS proxy built on the principles of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.

  • "Search Engines" search on:  
AltaVista - A9 - AOL - Ask - Clusty - Gigablast - Google - Lycos - MSN - Yahoo


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