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Swish-e (Score:1)

by kennyg (3143)

We've been using swish-e. http://www.swish-e.org/ [swish-e.org]. Easy to setup and install, and it's fast.
- Re:Swish-e (Score:2)
  
  by acme (189)
  
  It's hard to tell, but looks like swish-e is only set up to index files. I don't have files!
  - Re:Swish-e (Score:2)
    
    by grantm (164)
    
    Last time I used Swish-E I was indexing files, but they included things like MS Word and PDF documents so we used an indexing script to filter the files through X_to_text programs and feed the results to the indexer. There's no reason why your indexing script couldn't get its data from DBI or similar rather than files.
    
    The other thing I liked about the Swish-E indexing process was that you could feed arbitrary metadata fields to the indexer. This allowed you to get things like author name, publication da
    - Re:Swish-e (Score:2)
      
      by acme (189) on 2006.05.03 0:43 (#47531) Homepage Journal
      
      Right, Xapian allows you to store abitrary metadata and works find under incremental indexing, which I consider key.
      
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