Comments on: Open Source Desktop Search http://cutting.wordpress.com/2005/02/14/open-source-desktop-search/ Ramblings about Lucene, Nutch, Hadoop & other stuff Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:24:17 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: niktu http://cutting.wordpress.com/2005/02/14/open-source-desktop-search/#comment-12335 niktu Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:51:47 +0000 http://cutting.wordpress.com/2005/02/14/open-source-desktop-search/#comment-12335 Desktop Search, these i've found: Red-Piranha Search and Knowledge - Community Edition - Java J2EE Tomcat Lucene Xml Rdf http://red-piranha.sourceforge.net/ SourceForge.net: Lucene desktop index http://sourceforge.net/projects/lucenedesktop/ SourceForge.net: DocSearcher http://sourceforge.net/projects/docsearcher/ SourceForge.net: DocFetcher http://sourceforge.net/projects/docfetcher/ Main Page - Beagle http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page personally i'm using http://sourceforge.net/projects/lucenedesktop/ mostlyu because i've found it early and like its spartan interface (umm, i assume that regexp file inclusion/exlusion masks can appeal only to programmers ... thats plus for me, not neccesairly for average joe :) Desktop Search, these i’ve found:

Red-Piranha Search and Knowledge – Community Edition – Java J2EE Tomcat Lucene Xml Rdf
http://red-piranha.sourceforge.net/

SourceForge.net: Lucene desktop index
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lucenedesktop/

SourceForge.net: DocSearcher
http://sourceforge.net/projects/docsearcher/

SourceForge.net: DocFetcher
http://sourceforge.net/projects/docfetcher/

Main Page – Beagle
http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page

personally i’m using http://sourceforge.net/projects/lucenedesktop/
mostlyu because i’ve found it early and like its spartan interface
(umm, i assume that regexp file inclusion/exlusion masks can appeal only to programmers … thats plus for me, not neccesairly for average joe :)

]]> By: jwiz http://cutting.wordpress.com/2005/02/14/open-source-desktop-search/#comment-11187 jwiz Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:37:21 +0000 http://cutting.wordpress.com/2005/02/14/open-source-desktop-search/#comment-11187 I've found those two on SourceForge.net: http://sourceforge.net/projects/docfetcher/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/docsearcher/ The first one is quite easy to use, but only runs on Windows at the moment (though the project site states it is platform-independent) and it doesn't support Microsoft Word documents (not yet?), while the second one does, but its GUI really needs some cleanup. I’ve found those two on SourceForge.net:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/docfetcher/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/docsearcher/

The first one is quite easy to use, but only runs on Windows at the moment (though the project site states it is platform-independent) and it doesn’t support Microsoft Word documents (not yet?), while the second one does, but its GUI really needs some cleanup.

]]> By: Anonymous http://cutting.wordpress.com/2005/02/14/open-source-desktop-search/#comment-372 Anonymous Mon, 25 Sep 2006 22:56:00 +0000 http://cutting.wordpress.com/2005/02/14/open-source-desktop-search/#comment-372 Hello, Can I know any information regarding security features proovided by Lucene desktop search. Apart from that can I implement any other security feature in it like EFS to make it more powerful. Waiting for early response. Yours Truly, Vivek Singh.--> Hello,
Can I know any information regarding security features proovided by Lucene desktop search.
Apart from that can I implement any other security feature in it like EFS to make it more powerful.
Waiting for early response.
Yours Truly,
Vivek Singh.–>

]]> By: Anonymous http://cutting.wordpress.com/2005/02/14/open-source-desktop-search/#comment-369 Anonymous Fri, 14 Apr 2006 05:05:00 +0000 http://cutting.wordpress.com/2005/02/14/open-source-desktop-search/#comment-369 I have to admit that I'm not up to date on the desktop search scene. For example I don't know why do we call it "desktop search" when it can be run on laptops and doesn't connect to a computer's wallpaper. And I don't know what all the OSS options are. But anyway... I recently downloaded Windows Desktop Search that comes as an add-in for the MSN toolbar, and my complaints are two-fold. 1) it doesn't let me limit my search to particular directories. 2) It doesn't read enough meta-data in XML/HTML file formats. It is however a vast improvement over the Altavista desktop search I downloaded about six years ago- that thing wouldn't find the documents I was looking for and at the same time gave my oodles of false positives. I don't know what Google's search is like because I haven't tried it. But I hope the open source technologies can provide good competition for the proprietary offerings. BTW, just my two cents: a small download size would be advantageous but shouldn't be a requirment in desktop search. Like the other guy said, download time really doesn't matter much. I have to admit that I’m not up to date on the desktop search scene. For example I don’t know why do we call it “desktop search” when it can be run on laptops and doesn’t connect to a computer’s wallpaper. And I don’t know what all the OSS options are. But anyway…

I recently downloaded Windows Desktop Search that comes as an add-in for the MSN toolbar, and my complaints are two-fold. 1) it doesn’t let me limit my search to particular directories. 2) It doesn’t read enough meta-data in XML/HTML file formats. It is however a vast improvement over the Altavista desktop search I downloaded about six years ago- that thing wouldn’t find the documents I was looking for and at the same time gave my oodles of false positives.

I don’t know what Google’s search is like because I haven’t tried it. But I hope the open source technologies can provide good competition for the proprietary offerings.

BTW, just my two cents: a small download size would be advantageous but shouldn’t be a requirment in desktop search. Like the other guy said, download time really doesn’t matter much.

]]> By: Techknight http://cutting.wordpress.com/2005/02/14/open-source-desktop-search/#comment-368 Techknight Mon, 27 Feb 2006 04:29:00 +0000 http://cutting.wordpress.com/2005/02/14/open-source-desktop-search/#comment-368 We do have few open source desktop search applications which I find are on their way to become stable and provide robust search features. Though nascent we should be soon seeing some action here. I have found two of them and mentioned my experience with them <a HREF="http://open-source.onestop.net/2006/02/open-source-desktop-search.html" TITLE="Open Source Applications for Windows" rel="nofollow">here.</A> We do have few open source desktop search applications which I find are on their way to become stable and provide robust search features. Though nascent we should be soon seeing some action here. I have found two of them and mentioned my experience with them here.

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