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> <SPAN
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>mnoGoSearch</SPAN
> is a
full-featured SQL based web search
engine. <SPAN
CLASS="application"
>mnoGoSearch</SPAN
> 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 CGI front-end to
provide search using data collected by indexer. There are also PHP3
and Perl front-ends available from our site <A
HREF="http://www.mnogosearch.org/"
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>www.mnogosearch.org</A
>.</P
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> <SPAN
CLASS="application"
>mnoGoSearch</SPAN
> first release
took place in November 1998. The search engine had the name of
UDMSearch until October 2000 when the project was acquired by
Lavtech.Com Corp. and changed its name to
<SPAN
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>mnoGoSearch</SPAN
>.</P
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The latest changelog can be found <A
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>on our website</A
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>Main <SPAN
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>mnoGoSearch</SPAN
> features are as follows:</P
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>Built-in database support for small sites.</P
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>MySQL (<TT
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>libz</TT
>
library required), PostgreSQL, mySQL, Solid, iODBC, unixODBC, EasySoft
ODBC-ODBC bridge, Virtuoso, InterBase, Oracle (see <A
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>the Section called <I
>Oracle notes
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> in Chapter 5</A
>),
SyBase, MS SQL, SAPDB SQL, DB2 (see <A
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>the Section called <I
>IBM DB2 notes
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> in Chapter 5</A
>) back-ends support.</P
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>HTTP support.</P
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>HTTP proxy support.</P
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>HTTPS support.</P
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>FTP support.</P
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>NNTP support (both news:// and nntp:// URL schemes).</P
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>HTDB virtual URL scheme
support. One may build index and search through the big text
fields/blobs of SQL database.</P
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>Mirroring features.</P
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> <TT
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>text/html</TT
>, <TT
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>text/xml</TT
>
and <TT
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>text/plain</TT
> built-in support.</P
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>External parsers support for other document types.</P
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>Searching all of the word forms using ispell affixes and dictionaries</P
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>Basic authorization support. One may index password protected intranet HTTP servers.</P
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>Proxy authorization support.</P
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>Reentry capability. One may use
several indexing and searching processes at the same time even on the
same database. Multi-threaded indexing support.</P
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>Stop-list support.</P
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><P
><META NAME="robots" content="..."> and <TT
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>robots.txt</TT
> support.</P
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>C language CGI, PHP3, Perl web front-ends.</P
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>Boolean query language support.</P
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>Results sorting by relevancy and popularity rank.</P
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>Fuzzy search: different word forms, synonyms, substrings.</P
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>Best matching documents are found first.</P
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>Various character sets support</P
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>HTML templates to easily customize search results.</P
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>Advanced search options like time limits, category limits etc.</P
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>Phrases segmenting for chinese and japanese languages.</P
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