web search engine?

Steven Champeon ncsa-discussion@ncsysadmin.org
Fri, 4 Oct 2002 17:26:22 -0400


on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 09:56:51AM -0400, Patti Johnson wrote:
> We're looking for a search engine for our campus web. We have been/are
> using IIS' index server but would like a little more. In the past,
> we'd used Excite, until we migrated to an Alpha Win/NT box, which
> wasn't supported by excite; and since then, i can't find info on
> obtaining a license for their formerly-free search engine.
> 
> What experience have you all had?  Recommendations?  Suggestions? 

One other option that hasn't been mentioned is ht://dig, which we've
used with some success in a variety of environments:

 http://www.htdig.org

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