Re: Search Engine

[Martin Houston <nospam [at] deluxe-tech.co.uk>]

On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Martin P Holland wrote:

> sheflug - http://home.freeuk.net/shef.lug
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> >SuSE has a built-in Ht/Dig based search system - the 'dochost'
> >- it is well worth installing all the packages you are going to use
> >and running suserundig to create the indexes. It takes an hour or so but
> >gives you very quick search capability across all the docs!
>
> I use Ht/Dig with the offline web browser wwwoffle. The combination is really
> excellent. I have lots of interesting stuff in my cache and using htdig I can
> find things really quickly.
Now that is an interesting idea! Why not write up how you do it for the
Linux section in one of the mags (PC Plus and Computer Shopper both now
have one, probably other too.

Better still consider making your glue of the two systems together into a
standard package and get the Linux distributors to take is so that it
becomes a standard 'smart' feature of Linux.

It is that sort of flexability
and reliability that will make Linux attractive to new users in the end.

Fast search on where you went yesterday and 3 months ago...

I come a cross interesting stuff all the time, bookmarking alone just
can't cope with finding several new sites a day. The concept of a search
with the extra dimension of 'only show me things I have already seen (or
rather skimmed over) before' is very interesting!

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