[thelist] Site search software

[Paul Bennett]

I haven't used before but it has been used previously here and people don't want to go there again ;)

Thanks anyway...
Paul 

-----Original Message-----
From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Alan McGill
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 10:33 AM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] Site search software

Hi Paul,

I recently installed ht/Dig in a linux environment.

It's open source, highly configurable, with knowledgable support via mailing list.

http://www.htdig.org/

HTH

alan

Paul Bennett wrote:
> HI there,
> the site search software we've got for a current site is just not performing well. It's dead sloooooooow and the developer doesn't seem much help in fixing it.
> 
> I'm looking at other options and wonder what recommendations the list has.
> 
> The software needs to run in a Linux / PHP / MySQL environment (on a dedicated server so we can install whatever we like). Preferably it would "learn" user patterns like "Learning Search" (http://www.sli-systems.com/learning_search.shtml) proposes to do.
> 
> (The only downfall with Learning Search is that it is hosted 
> externally and hence is a no-no for this site.)
> 
> We are up for paid solutions and even haven't ruled out Google but I need to look at a few options first.
> 
> Paul
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