Hi, 

Try http://www.comptek.ru/yandex/YandexFree.html
search engine for web servers with highlighting searched words... 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stas Bekman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 2:10 PM
> To: Matt Sergeant
> Cc: mod_perl list
> Subject: Re: search engine for the Guide
> 
> 
> > On Thu, 4 May 2000, Stas Bekman wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 3 May 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Wed, 3 May 2000, Stas Bekman wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Yeah, I've been thinking about it. There was one site 
> that has offered me
> > > > > to provide a good search engine and they did, but the 
> problem is that they
> > > > > didn't keep up with new releases, so people were 
> searching the outdated
> > > > > version, which is quite bad -- I've removed the 
> reference to it, after
> > > > > asking them to update their copy for a few months, 
> with no results.
> > > > 
> > > > Can't we use WWW::Search - If I recall correctly some 
> of the sites can be
> > > > restricted to a domain, so you could build a search 
> interface pretty
> > > > easily.
> > > 
> > > DESCRIPTION :
> > > This class is the parent for all access methods supported by the
> > > WWW::Search library. This library implements a Perl API 
> to web-based
> > > search engines.
> > > 
> > > It's not the search engine -- it's a Perl API to the 
> search engines. We
> > > need a search engine not the API to it. Did I miss something?
> > 
> > Yes. On some of the search engines (AltaVista springs to 
> mind) you can
> > search for things on particular web sites, or even links to 
> particular web
> > sites. So as long as AltaVista keeps its search contents up 
> to date, you
> > can leverage their engine. IIRC either Randall or Lincoln did a
> > WebTechniques article about this a few months ago.
> 
> Oh, I see.
> 
> But I want to stress these 2 points: 
> 
> 1) Currently each chapter in the Guide is a huge document, so 
> doing search
> and having a hit, doesn't really help as you still have to go thru the
> page to find the exact section that you want to read. So I 
> think we want a
> search engine that's not working with the master version per 
> se, but with
> a copy which has name anchors for each line and:
> 
>   a. can bring you to exact line with match
>   b. have the keyword highlighted
> 
> 2) Most of the search engines have problems with keywords including
> non-alpha chars, like if you search for Apache::Registry you 
> will end up
> searching for Apache and Registry since :: is ignored. Now think about
> '$r->print' 'BEGIN {', '$@', etc. All these are must for the 
> doc with many
> non-alpha characters which should be searched for.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
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