The fact that Nutch and Lucene are both open source answer all three of your questions. But the thing it dosen't answer is how, thats up to you :)
-- Ravish On 4/16/06, Shawn Gervais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ahmed ghouzia wrote: > > Dear nutchers > > This is my first time that i ask a question to nutch users. > > > > I am a researcher working on web retreval and i am asking if i can use > nutch for the following: > > > > 1- Can i make nutch begin from a seed urls brought through the Google > API ? > > Yes. You should be able to seed using URLs from any source. > > > 2- Can i see the algorithms that make crawling and compare queries to > search results? > > Yes. I believe the releases come with source, if not the SVN sources are > available. > > > 3- Can i modify these algorithms and replace them with my own > algorithms? > > Yes. > > -Shawn >
