UdmSearch v.3.0  by UdmSearch Developers Team
Full featured web search engine
Please see the file COPYING for license information
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General
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UdmSearch is a full-featured SQL based web search engine.
UdmSearch consists of two parts. The first part is indexing mechanism (indexer).
Indexer walks over html hypertext references and stores found words and
new references into database. The second part is web front-end to
provide search using data collected by indexer. C language CGI, 
PHP3 and Perl front-ends are currently included in UdmSearch distribution.


Main features are:
* MySQL, PostgreSQL, mSQL, Solid, iODBC, unixODBC, Virtuoso, InterBase
    backend support
* HTTP support
* HTTP proxy support
* FTP via HTTP proxy support
* NNTP support (news:// URL schema)
* HTDB virtual URL schema support
  One may build index and search through the big text fields of database
* Mirroring features
* text/html with <a href="">,<area href=""> and <frame src="">
  and text/plain support
* it can search for all of the word forms using 
  ispell affixes and dictionaries
* basic authorization support. One may easy index password protected
  intranet HTTP servers
* it's reenterant. One could use several indexing and searching processes 
  at the same time even on the same database. Multi-threaded indexing support
* stop-list support
* <META NAME="robots" content="..."> and robots.txt support
* C language CGI, PHP3, Perl web front-ends
* boolean query language support
* best documents are found first
* external parsers support
* different character sets support
* HTML templates to easily customize search results

Where to get it?
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Check for the latest version of UdmSearch at:
http://mysearch.udm.net/


Mailing list
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There is mailing list related to UdmSearch:

udmsearch@search.udm.net is list for discussion of UdmSearch and
related announcements. Please post in English only.

To subscribe to list send "subscribe udmsearch" in the body of the message
to majordomo@search.udm.net


How do I use it?
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Please read INSTALL for installation instructions and 
files in doc subdirectory to start using UdmSearch.


Contribution
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You can send any patches, ideas etc. to <devel@search.udm.net>.
We are looking for more developers.  If you want to contribute to the 
development, please first ask us to subscribe you to UdmSearch Developers
mailing list <devel@search.udm.net>.


Disclaimer (see COPYING for details)
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307 USA
