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On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Mike Lowndes wrote: > We use webglimpse, > http://donkey.CS.Arizona.EDU/webglimpse/ > > http://tucson.com/webglimpse/ > > which is rather long in the tooth but is being developed (they are > currently writing meta tag indexers for it). Its not as good as ht://dig, > except in some key areas. We also use glimpse to index the web archives of old messages. It allows us to limit searches to one list, or search across the archives of many different lists (http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/search-lots.html) We can also filter pages before indexing which means that the links to next/previous messages don't get indexed > > ht://dig has some great features, like splitting results into pages, fuzzy > searching and relevance scoring. I've almost decided to use it but at the > mo. I've stuck with webglimpse because > 1. it allows you to search subsections of an index by adding a filter > statement. With a large and complex site its much easier to create several > specific search boxes as well as one overall facility. > 2. it can jump to the line of HTML containing the word(s) > 3. The latest version 1.7.7 can search on fields (eg metatags) but we have > not intalled that as yet. > > Just my 2p -- Bronwen Reid, Mailbase, Computing Service, University of Newcastle, NE1 7RU Tel: (0191) 222-8214 Email: [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%