search engine

[gene tani]

George Sakkis wrote:
> vinodh kumar wrote:
> > hai all,
> >              i am student of computer science dept. i have planned to
> > design a search engine in python. i am seeking info about how to
> > proceed further.
> >       i need to know what r the modules that can be used.
>
> There is not a "search engine module" around AFAIK. You should do your
> homework first and learn about search engines in a language-independent
> way from some good textbook such as "Mining the Web"
> (http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~soumen/mining-the-web/),

There are python bindings for lucene, swish, Xapian, etc.  As well as a
Zcatalog.  There *was* Pyndex, from Divmod, maybe they'll send you the
source.

More books: Manning and Schuetze "Statistical NLP", Berry and Browne's
"Understanding Search Engines"
http://www.ec-securehost.com/SIAM/SE17.html