Stefan is right, there are no complete open source solutions out there that I am aware of. There is an initiative to port Lucene to C, but it doesn't have everything you would need to run a complete search engine.
As far as commercial products, it depends on what you are looking for. If you need a complete engine to startup some niche search business I would look at Munax (www.munax.com). I know the guys that built that system and it is top notch. I don't know what they charge for it, but they have both corporate clients running it internally and several major search sites in Europe running it. We evaluated it to be a baseline demonstration engine for us to put our systems on top of and were impressed. I think the best part of their tool set is their crawler. It is content aware and has the ability to recognize semantics. -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Groschupf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 8:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Good Alternatives to Nutch? NO! :-) There is no serious open source competitor to nutch, but there are some commercial products. e.g. google Appliance or gigablast. In any case I see no problem to have a java based solution. Java runs on other os e.g. m$ window$ and it is definitely very fast... to have a c(++) based solution wouldn't improve speed. Stefan Am 06.11.2005 um 09:38 schrieb Victor Lee: > Hi, > I am looking for a non-java solution for search > engine. Are there any good non-java alternatives to > Nutch? > Many thanks. > > > > __________________________________ > Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs >
