[thelist] site search: free and/or ultra low cost

[Seb]

>we've got an intranet that could use a search utility. i just spoke with
>a guy at atomz search and found out that atomz is WAY too expensive and
>that probably any other robust* search solution will be as well. any
>other recommendations out there?

>* by robust i mean able to index multiple formats especially MS Office
>formats and PDF files.


Yep, and in common with your earlier email, Zope's the answer.

Zope 2.6 comes with ZCatalog, which allows you to index just about anything
using plug-able index modules.

You might want to start with looking through the list of content products
available on Zope.org (http://www.zope.org/Products/content_object)


Alternatively, on a *nix box, you might want to look at swish-e (
http://www.swish-e.org ) which is pretty cool.


- seb