There seem to be a bunch: ebhath, Nathra, Subject Search Server, Ultra Search, MondoSearch, Inktomi, FusionBot, ASPSeek, dtSearch, LikeIt, IBM Intelligent Miner for text, Innerprise, URL Spider Pro...
ebhath is a free Perl script, it's at <http://www.egsx.com/products/ebhath/> For the rest, search on searchtools.com for "arabic".... Avi At 11:12 AM -0600 3/28/02, Gilles Detillieux wrote: >According to Mimo Assassa: >> Dear sir, >> >> I am developping a search engine to search for similar words in arabic, >> and as I found a mail that mentioned your interest about this subject I >> would like to ask you if you have already found a solution for this. >> In case you have and you have published it, I would be very greatful if >> you would send me the link or any refrence to solve my problem. >> >> Thank you very much for your efforts. >> >> Best regards, >> Mimo Assassa > >The search engine I use is ht://Dig (see http://www.htdig.org), which can >handle any 8-bit character set that's supported by a UNIX/Linux "locale". >I don't know if arabic falls into that category or not. Red Hat 7.2 does >have arabic locales, but they seem to use Unicode or UTF8 which htdig >doesn't support. > >As for the metaphone algorithm, the one that's included in ht://Dig is >English-specific, but it probably wouldn't be that difficult to add fuzzy >match algorithms for other languages if they're available (as open source). > >I'm posting this to the htdig-general mailing list just in case someone >else on the list has more experience with arabic search engines. > >-- >Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: >http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil >Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766 >Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930 > >_______________________________________________ >htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To unsubscribe, send a message to ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of >unsubscribe >FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html -- Complete Guide to Search Engines for Web Sites and Intranets <http://www.searchtools.com> _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
