mnoGoSearch v.3.1  by mnoGoSearch Developers Team
Full featured web search engine
Please see the file COPYING for license information
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General
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mnoGoSearch is a full-featured SQL based web search engine.
mnoGoSearch 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
http://www.mnogosearch.org/.


Main features are:
* Built-in database support for small sites
* MySQL, PostgreSQL, mSQL, Solid, iODBC, unixODBC, EasySoft ODBC-ODBC 
bridge, Virtuoso, InterBase, Oracle, SAPDB SQL backends support
* HTTP support
* HTTP proxy support
* HTTPS support
* FTP support
* NNTP support (both news:// and nntp:// URL schemes)
* HTDB virtual URL scheme support
  One may build index and search through the big text fields/blobs of 
  SQL database.
* mirroring features
* text/html and text/plain built-in support
* external parsers support for other document types
* it can search for all of the word forms using 
  ispell affixes and dictionaries
* basic authorization support. One may index password protected
  intranet HTTP servers
* proxy authorization support
* it's reenterant. One may 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
* different character sets support
* HTML templates to easily customize search results
* advanced search options like time limits etc.

Where to get it?
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Check for the latest version of mnoGoSearch at:
http://www.mnogosearch.org/


Mailing list
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There are mailing lists related to mnoGoSearch.
general@mnogosearch.org is a list for discussion of mnoGoSearch. 
Please post in English only.

announce@mnogosearch.org is a low-traffic moderated list for
mnoGoSearch related announcements.

To subscribe to the list send "subscribe general" or 
"subscribe announce" in the body of the message
to majordomo@mnogosearch.org


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


Contribution
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Please, send any patches, ideas etc. to <devel@mnogosearch.org>.
We are looking for more developers.  If you want to contribute to the 
development, please ask us to subscribe you to mnoGoSearch Developers
mailing list <devel@mnogosearch.org>.


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
