Re: Open source search engine

[Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>]

Yes, Nutch is open source--and that is what you would like
to play with if you want to do some serious tweaking of search engines.

Here is a little overview of the code:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse454/04wi/slides/nutch.ppt

(I understand we have an installed version in Hasan's lab--right
guys?)

rao


At 05:39 PM 2/19/2004, you wrote:

> Prof Kambhampati,
>
> This could be interesting if it ever gets off the ground:
>
>    
> http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/roush20304.asp
>
>     Cutting?s remedy is an open-source search engine,
> called Nutch, 
>     that uses ranking algorithms similar to Google?s, but
> with a 
>     twist: each search result is accompanied by a link
> labeled 
>     ?Explain? that produces a detailed accounting of the
> various 
>     scores and weights that gave the result its
> rank.
>
> Harvey