I am no potential sponsor but would like to see a comparison to Apache Jakarta Lucene (http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/index.html) which is implemented in Java.
Andreas ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 4:04 PM Subject: Mentor(s) required for a search engine project Hello, I am looking for a Mentor(s) for the following project. We are developing a new open source search engine provisionally named "Locust" and are looking for an open source organization to host this project. The main features of Locust are: * High performance - about one million documents per day on a Dell PowerEdge 2500 server, index size of up to ten million documents with fast search is successfully used. * Integration of full-text search with directory assisted search (Yahoo style) is built in. * A multi-threaded Linux application written in C++ with STL. Locust is based on complete rewriting of another open search engine ASPseek (http://www.aspseek.org/). The reason for rewriting was a dismal state of ASPseek code that made it impossible to develop it further. Whoever wrote it made a very good job on general architecture and features, but had no idea about software engineering. New code is reasonably clean and modular. Although it generally mimics the functionality of ASPseek (plus added integration with directories and better document set selection), it is possible now, due to its modular structure, to develop the code in many interesting direction, such as indexing document from different sources (in addition to the Web), creating distributed search services where many Locust based search engines cooperate via TCP/IP, etc. I would be glad to provide more information to potential Mentors. Gregory Kozlovsky Project Manager for Information Systems Tel: +41 (0)1 632 63 70 International Relations and Security Network (ISN) Fax: +41 (0)1 632 14 13 Center for Security Studies Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) http://www.isn.ch/ Leonhardshalde 21, ETH-Zentrum / LEH CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
