UdmSearch v.2.1  by UdmSearch Developers Team.
Search engine over the web based on MySQL database.
Please see the file COPYING for license information
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General
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UdmSearch is a MySQL based search engine over the web.
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 mysql database. The second part is cgi program
(search.cgi or search.php3 if you prefer php) to find words using 
data created by indexer.


Main features are:
* HTTP support
* HTTP proxy support
* FTP via proxy support
* 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 could easy index password protected
  intranet HTTP servers
* it's reenterant. One could use several indexing processes at the same time
  even on the same database
* stop-list support
* <META NAME="robots" content="..."> and robots.txt support
* both C cgi and PHP3 frontends included
* boolean query language support
* best documents are found first
* external parsers support
* it's very fast (thanks Monty for greatest database)
* different character sets support


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

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 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
