[ANNOUNCE] Ransacker extendable search engine

[Michal Wallace (sabren)]

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 Announcing RANSACKER
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Ransacker is a scriptable, incrementally-double-indexed search engine
written in python.

It's *scriptable* in that you can index any text with any key. This
makes it easy to index content ("pages") stored in databases, file
systems, the web, etc.

It can index *incrementally*. This means you can add content or update
the entry for a particular page without touching the rest of the
index.

It's *double-indexed*, meaning that not only does every word have a
list of pages, every page has a list of words. This is used for the
incremental indexer, but also allows you to determine which pages have
the most in common. This will allow ransacker to produce "what's
related" pages.

Currently, ransacker ranks pages by number of times keywords
appear. It does *not yet* support boolean queries, fuzzy matches, or
other advanced searching features.

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 new in this version: everything!


 where to get it: http://ransacker.sourceforge.net/
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Cheers,

- Michal
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