According to Jon Jensen:
>Someone mentioned MondoSearch as the only enginge they knew of that could do
>that already, so I called them and talked to their sales manager. He sent me
>a comparison of several search engines and ht://Dig is mentioned, so if
>you're interested in seeing what they say, I've converted it from Excel to
>HTML and posted it here:
>
>http://viscom.byu.edu/jon/mondosoft/mondosoft-compare.html
>
>ht://Dig is rated as having "limited" search result customization
>capability, which I would dispute.
- Customization of search interface
Since you have the code, you can do more about customization than with
all of the other products listed on that page, no? So I'd rather change
that to "unlimited" ,-)
- Search for downloadable files
Of course: possible with *every* search engine (what is a "not-downloadable
file" on a web page anyway?)
- Search by language
Depending upon the structure of your web-site: unlimited
Since you're able to freely define META tags to be looked at in pages,
you can include language information
If you have a structured site, you can use restrict/exclude.
- Detection of duplicates & dead links
Any robot will detect any dead links: let it run and look at the server's
error log ,-)
- Sorting by category
At least partially possible, I'd say.
- Indexing & linking into frames
Of course you can index and link into frames with ht://Dig. You can
do it with nearly every search engine. But it will always be *very*
limited.
- Customization of results display
Simply unlimited.
- Categorized presentation of links
What do they mean with that? I think you can do it with ht://Dig
(and most other search software), too - just keep your site "categorized".
- Filter for news only
Of course: yes (sort by date, as a simple example)
- Add. Developers kit
Hmm.. you get the source.. You get sample wrappers and scripts..
Isn't that something that could be called "developer's kit"? *g*
IMHO, most of the stuff compared by the document is invalid to discuss
for sites that are well structured. If you are able to design a site
with all those "features" in mind, you can have it with nearly every
search engine software. It is all a matter of planning and engineering
a web-site. Search engine software that appears to be "intelligent"
will most probably *fail* in conditions where they meet an environment
not suitable for their intelligence. No search engine software is able
to substitute human brains with regards of "categorization" or "language
detection" (hey, is the term "Kindergarten" English or is it German?
What about "Gesundheit" or "adieu"? You can get this only from the
context of a document, but no machine is able to understand context
at the moment - and it is very likely that this situation will stay
that way for quite a while). Of course, "language detection" can be
based upon HTML 4.0 or some server extensions but you can never be
sure that someone will *not* put a language "xy" into a context of "ab"
(i.e. use "ab" instead of the correct "xy") - and the search engine
will fail.
What I dislike most about that document is, that they'll giv no version
information for the software they compared! Things change a lot from
version to version, making such a document not very reliable.
just my 2cc,
Torsten
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