Re: [MLUG] what's the best engine for searching local pages?

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

You could write a decent search engine using grep in about two lines. Take
the path of all your web pages, take the user's search string (nicely
escaped of course.. no hacking), run them through grep and return the
result parsed out so that all the matched files are returned as url's.
Combined with 'find' you could have min and max depth etc. Combined with
'file' you could match by mime type. *shrugs* Just suggesting the benefits
of a minimalistic approach. ;)

> I'm looking for something that can be used by the general population to
> search pages on my machine.  I want the pages available to people who know
> where they are, but I don't want them to be in the big search engines like
> Google (where everybody would see them).  So I've been running WebGlimpse
> on my machine, like this:
>
> http://taxa.psyc.missouri.edu/bgnews/
>
> It works well.  See what I mean?--they can't use 'grep'!!
>
> Is there nothing else like WebGlimpse out there?  I'd want something Open
> Source and good quality.
>
> Mike
>
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