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Searching Software

This is a list of available software for searching through documents, typically documents on your server.

AppleWebSearch provides a gateway mechanism for making AppleSearch information sources available via MacHTTP to others on the World Wide Web.
Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing (APRP) does content-based retrieval for multimedia
Alkaline is fast and featureful, and is free for non-commercial use.
ArchiePlex is an Archie gateway for the World Wide Web.
Architext Software provides concept-based searching, interactive browsing, flexibility, usability, and networkability.
Configurable Unified Search Interface (CUSI) extends the Simple Unified Search Engine concept to use forms so you can copy and customize it.
Dataflight Software - Concordance
DIENST (Distributed Interactive Extensible Network Server for Techreports) servers interoperate to provide a logically uniform collection to the user, even though the physical collection is distributed.
RetrievalWare from Excalibur Technologies is a unified family of software components enabling developers to build information retrieval solutions for the full spectrum of digital information, including text, document images and multimedia data types.
FFW (Freetext search For Web) provide easy-to-use freetext searching facilities over HTML documents (and as a special case plain text documents). The output is intended as input to scripts providing the user interface, typically CGI scripts.
Fish Search (in NCSA Mosaic for X) expands the search by following links from documents that best match the query so far. Every page is essentially an index.
Glimpse (GLobal IMPlicit SEarch) is an indexing and query system that allows you to search through an entire UNIX file system in many (possibly nested) directories very quickly.
GSQL - a gateway to SQL databases using CGI.
The Harvest Information Discovery and Access System is an integrated set of tools to gather, extract, organize, search, cache, and replicate relevant information across the Internet.
Htgrep is a generic search engine for HTTP servers that allows you to query any particular document accessible to your server on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis. Understands HTML list items and Refer bibliographic entries.
Ingrid: A Self-Configuring Information Grid is very similar to the fish search.
A highly sophisticated search "engine" called Inquiry, developed by the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR), provides intelligent, intuitive retrieval of information and links.
Lightweght Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
Netsearch is a unique tool for gathering widely dispersed information from the Internet. It does simultaneous searches over several indexes.
NexTrieve Text Retrieval does fuzzy searching.
Personal Library Software has a number of advanced search tools. You can try out the demonstrations.
Quadralay WebWorks Search is an html/ascii indexer & query tool for unix & nt web servers, and uses an easy forms based browser interface for installation, configuration, and administration. This tool includes support for multiple topics (catalogs) and a custom query page generator.
Repository Based Software Engineering (RBSE) URL database
Saqqara's Step Search
SIMON (System of Internet Mapping for Organised Navigation) - software for organizing hotlists and synthesizing alternative organizations.
TR-WWW is a Macintosh based search engine for use with the MacHTTP server software.
Virtual Shareware Library - has searching software
WAIS

WAISGATE - Web to WAIS gateway
freeWAIS-sf
Discover provides query refinement and query routing to over 500 WAIS servers.
DocFinder
Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) over Z39.50-1988 and Beyond
WWWWAIS.c acts as gateway between waisq or waissearch (programs that search WAIS indexes) and a forms-capable World-Wide Web browser.
Demo of a Multi-field freeWAIS-sf-1.1 Search with Boolean Support
SFgate is a CGI script which interfaces to wais servers which is specially suited for usage with the freeWAIS-sf servers.
Son of WAIS is mostly obsoleted by kidofwais.pl.

WebCompass is NOT JUST a search tool. It's a complete research assistant, summarizing and categorizing your information based on your own personal preferences, and making it permanently available in a robust database.
ZWeb z39.50 Search Engine

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