Nutch is OK - but IMHO not really that polished, if you really want FOSS, take a look at some of the suggestions above first.
Solr is brilliant, but not what you are looking for. It's more of a full-text search component for developers, it doesn't have a user facing search UI, or a web crawler and it doesn't understand MS Office documents. - rich On 14 May, 15:21, Richard Heycock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excerpts from Sebastian Spiess's message of Wed May 14 07:10:01 +1000 2008: > > > > > hi all, > > > I know this is not a 100% linux related question but it's open source baby > > :-) > > > On our company network we have a daily growing number of documents in lots > > of > > folders and stuff. Most of it is organised in > > project folders and has reoccurring folder structures and file names. > > We are working hard on giving it more and clearer structure but sometimes > > it is > > still hard to find some files. > > > I want to suggest to install a search engine which will index our existing > > files so that employees can crawl quickly though > > projects history. > > > I've heard of the various desktop search engines like beagle, tracker and > > google desktop but are there open source engines > > which can be run on a server so that many can connect to it and search? > > > Sadly we are relying on MS office (2001), AutoCAD (R16 to 2008) and other > > proprietary software in our daily work so those > > kind of files would need to be indexed. > > > Does anyone has a idea, something I could investigate further? a software > > name? > > Hutch/solr might be a good fit. There's quite a good overview of both here: > > http://www.danielnaber.de/publications/jazoon07_naber.pdf > > rgh > > > > > cheers, seb > > -- > +61 (0) 410 646 369 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and > I'm worried complexity, poor design and mismanagement will be there to meet > them - Marcus Ranum > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs:http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
