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Apache Lucene and Ruby

Daniel — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:37:28 +0000

Robert Dempsey has written a nice article about ‘Using Amazon S3, EC2, SQS, Lucene, and Ruby for Web Spidering‘, which is very interesting because it describes how to interact with Apache Lucene using Ruby.

next-generation architecture for Google’s web search

Daniel — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:05:11 +0000

For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google’s web search. It’s the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions. The new infrastructure sits “under the hood” of Google’s search engine, which means that most users won’t notice a difference in search results. But web developers and power searchers might notice a few differences, so we’re opening up a web developer preview to collect feedback.
(see Google Webmaster Central)

Clusty. My new favourite search engine.

Daniel — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:13:06 +0000

It’s a shame that i didn’t recognize this thing of beauty before. :)

searchCrystal. search visualization tool

Daniel — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 07:06:47 +0000

searchCrystal lets you search and compare multiple engines in one place.
It is a search visualization tool that enables you to compare, remix and share results from the best web, image, video, blog, tagging, news engines, Flickr images or RSS feeds.

krugle code search engine

Daniel — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:52:59 +0000

Just found krugle. A nifty search engine which helps you finding source-code by searching through projects which are available in the internet. It also allows you to add comments to the code.

Krugle helps programmers find existing source code and the information they need to evaluate, deploy and fix code.

There is a demo-video which shows all the features.

Grokker. Now and then.

Daniel — Mon, 07 May 2007 21:09:37 +0000

I have tested Grooker — a really nice looking search-engine — some years ago, when it was a desktop-application. Seems that it has become a web-application since then. Its still nice looking and returns good results.

Search Wikia

Daniel — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:40:50 +0000

Thanks to Dave Winer’s posting, i have found out about Search Wikia.

The basic concept of the search project is that I want to create a completely transparent, open-source, freely licensed search engine, [...]
(more @ infoworld.com)