ht-Dig

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Ht-//Dig

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ht://Dig is a open source indexing and searching system created in 1995 by Andrew Scherpbier while he was employed at San Diego State University^[1]^[2]. It is intended to be used to build and provide an internal search engine for a single website (as opposed to search engines that index the Internet such as Google and Yahoo). It includes three groups of files: a set of tools for indexing, a set of tools for searching, and a set of HTML files for building the user interface to access the search engine^[3]. ht://Dig works differently from most search engines as most engines use a two-step process, building an index and searching it. ht://Dig indexes pages in full, then processes the pages into a searchable form later using soundex and metaphone^[4]. ht://Dig also stores fuzzy match information instead of using a dynamic algorithm^[5]. At one time, over 500 organizations used ht://Dig to index sites they owned. Notable sites included Blizzard Entertainment, Greenpeace, and The Mozilla Foundation.^[6]

As of September 2007, the last official release is Dig 3.2.0b6 announced on June 16 2004. Only sporadic maintenance is in evidence since that date at the project's bug reporting page.

[edit] See also

Lucene
Xapian

[edit] External links

Official website of ht://Dig

[edit] References

↑ Winston, A.:"OpenVMS with Apache, OSU and WASD: The Nonstop Webserver", page 179. Digital Press, 2003
↑ http://www.htdig.org/author.html
↑ http://www.linux-mag.com/id/510/
↑ Skiena, S.:"The Algorithm Design Manual", page 408. Springer Publishing, 1998
↑ Behcet Sarikaya: "Geographic Location in the Internet", pages 145-146. Springer Publishing, 2002
↑ http://www.htdig.org/uses.html