Directory of Search Engines Resources

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Sites relating to search engine software with an open source license.

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• Apache Lucene

Resources in This Category

• Arachnode.net

  http://arachnode.net/
  A .NET web crawler written in C# using SQL 2005 and Lucene. Documentation and online demonstration.

• BDDBot

  http://www.twmacinta.com/bddbot/
  A web robot, search engine and web server written in Java and available under GPL. Includes related resources. [Project no longer actively updated]

• CSIRO Arch Intranet Search Engine

  http://www.atnf.csiro.au/computing/software/arch/
  An open source, high precision corporate search engine based on Apache Nutch

• Datafari - open source enterprise search solution

  http://www.datafari.com/
  A packaged, Apache v2-licensed, enterprise search solution that leverages ManifoldCF for data sources, Solr for the search engine, and Cassandra for user management.

• DataparkSearch Engine Tool

  http://www.dataparksearch.org/
  Open source search engine tool released under GPL and designed to organize search within a website, group of websites, intranet or local system.

• Egothor

  http://www.egothor.org/
  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.

• Groonga

  http://groonga.org/
  An LGPL 2.1, open-source, fulltext search engine and column store written in C. Works with MySQL and Postgres. Site provides online documentation and downloads.

• Grub

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/grub/
  Open source, cross-platform distributed crawler. FAQ, documentation and a support forum.

• Indri

  http://www.lemurproject.org/indri.php
  A cross-platform search engine written in C++ that provides text search and a rich structured query language. BSD-like license.

• KDE GUISearch

  http://guisearch.sourceforge.net/
  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

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/locust/
  Specifically designed for knowledge area or corporate search, written in C++.

• Norconex HTTP Collector

  http://www.norconex.com/collectors/collector-http/download
  Java-based Apache licensed enterprise web crawler running on any platform, and integrating with virtually any search engines (open-source or commercial).

• Nutch

  http://nutch.apache.org/
  Effort to implement a prototype of an open source web-search engine.

• OpenSearchServer

  http://www.opensearchserver.com/
  A GPLv3 search engine and crawler for urls, databases, and file systems. Comes with an XML/HTTP API, PHP/ASP client. Based on Apache Tomcat, Java Server Faces and JBoss RichFaces.

• OpenWebSpider

  http://www.openwebspider.org/
  An open source web spider and search engine. Includes demo, source code and screenshots.

• Sphider

  http://www.sphider.eu/
  A lightweight search engine in PHP. Includes details of features, documentation, support forum, and download. [GPL]

• Sphinx

  http://sphinxsearch.com/
  A search engine designed for indexing database content. It natively supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and XML pipe interfaces. It is written in C++ and has a GPL license.

• Strus

  http://project-strus.net/
  A collection of C++ (C++98) libraries and command line tools for building a competitive full-text search engine. Development status is pre-alpha.

• The Xapian Project

  http://xapian.org/
  Open source search engine library written in C++, with bindings to allow use from other languages as well.

• Wumpus

  http://www.wumpus-search.org/
  A C++, GPL-licensed search engine developed at the University of Waterloo. Wumpus allows control of the text unit retrieved based on structural constraints in the query.

• YaCy

  http://www.yacy.net/
  A distributed Web crawler and caching HTTP/HTTPS proxy built on the principles of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.

• Yioop!

  http://www.seekquarry.com/
  A PHP, GPLv3 search engine designed to do open web or intranet crawls.

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