I've been using DBIx::FullTextSearch and have been generally happy with the results. It's fast as heck and uses MySQL for the indeces.
It supports stemming through Lingua::Stem, basic relevancy ranking (by number of occurences), uses LWP to index URLs, and has altavista-like search query syntax. It's really made to just index and search docs- you'll have to hitch in whatever else you want it to do. What it does it does well, though. -DJCP Dan Collis Puro Web Development Coordinator, MLRI ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Miner" To: Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 2:37 PM Subject: [Boston.pm] Perl API to Fulltext Search Engine Good afternoon, I'm hunting for an open source fulltext search engine with a Perl API. I checked out SWISH-E and ht://Dig, and neither of them seems to support this. I know I could write a wrapper program to call one of their binaries, but as the application I am writing is going to get a good amount of traffic, I'd prefer the added speed and security of a non-forking solution. I discovered the Swish.pm module, but this appears to be a fancy wrapper around swish-e, and is only an alpha version with an explicit "Don't Use this for Production" warning. Anyone have experience using this package? AltaVista Search may offer a solution, but I would much prefer an open source option. Has anyone come across or written such a fulltext engine/Perl API? Thanks for your help. - Simon Miner **************************************** Simon Miner Web Developer Christianbook.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ****************************************
