Okay, here's the skinny:
I checked out a lotta different search engines at www.searchtools.com .
Y'all should take a look at that site; it's the best collection of search
engine stuff I've found.
SoOoOo, anyhow, after reading a lot, and trying a demo or two, I put in my
purchase order for dtSearch Web; a fine search engine, to the tune of $699
(GSA Schedule). Check it out at www.dtsearch.com .
The interesting thing is, there is a sister product, dtSearch Text Retrieval
Engine ($999), which is the developer's version of the dtSearch engine, for
those who wanna roll their own. This one will expose the dtSearch engine as
a COM object, so theoretically this could be used via CFOBJECT.
Me, I'm into lazy-easy, so I'm gonna use the canned dtSearch Web, running on
a separate server. Hey, whadda I care if it ain't CF or Fusebox? It works,
right??? For $699, I don't think its worth re-inventing the wheel. However,
if somebody else wants to pop the $999 (Hal, that's 1/5th of a student to
you), I'm sure a totally awesome CF/FB driven search tool could be built.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wallick, Mike [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 11:22 AM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: RE: NOBODY expects the CFOBJECTing of Index Server on a
> remote bo x!
>
> Well, I know that ht://dig works well for cfml and html. There is also an
> add-on script called parse-doc.pl (or something like that) that allows you
> to set up your own document parsers. I know that there is a parser for
> word
> and excel, and acroread works well for PDFs. There is an Windows NT
> version
> of Ht://Dig out there, never tried it myself. I'm ruinning on Solaris 8
> with
> great results, but I have to admit, I haven't tried the doc converters for
> the 'nix OS's. I would imagine the Windows version would just use Office
> apps to parse the docs.....
> Well, anyway I'm babbling now, have a good one.
>
> Just my $0.02
>
> Mike Wallick
> Web Services
> Secure Computing Corporation
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McCollough, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 1:51 PM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: RE: NOBODY expects the CFOBJECTing of Index Server on a
> remote bo x!
>
> Okay, its a few days later and I'm sick of trying to get MS Index
> Server working. Verity works, but in a crippled format. A visit to
> www.verity.com reveals that they must be very expensive because nothing is
> priced, and its all "Contact Us"; which is of course the universal signal
> for "Prepare to be viciously gouged".
>
> SoOoOo, other than brand M or brand V, does AnYbOdY have a
> recommendation on a search engine solution that can, without a ton of
> coding, provide search functions for an intranet (not www based like
> Atomz),
> including searching through common office document formats (.doc, .pdf,
> ...xls)??? Something that could possibly be integrated with FB?
>
>
> >
>
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