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Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com)
Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com)
Posted Apr 24, 2007 11:24 UTC (Tue) by akumria (subscriber, #7773)In reply to: Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com) by drag
Parent article: Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com)
I can feel a grumpy editor's guide to desktop searching coming on.
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Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com)
Posted Apr 24, 2007 15:07 UTC (Tue) by job (subscriber, #670) [Link]
That would be interesting. And please include the proper unix tools Glimpse and Swish. I've used Glimspe now and then during the last ten years to index my home and these new insanely bloated graphical desktop utilities adds nothing, as far as I can tell. I'm not interested in metadata, it's all plaintext anyway.
Recoll: the search engine for the Linux desktop! :)
Posted Apr 25, 2007 14:32 UTC (Wed) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]
Glimpse has nice features like fuzzy search (see also agrep) but it's not free software; Swish-E has had its own problems (and rather stacks up against Xapian Omega or mnoGoSearch indexers which are primarily for web).
Didn't hear about Tracker before; I do maintain Xapian and Recoll packages for ALT Linux.
BTW search.gmane.org is powered by xapian.
Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com)
Posted Apr 24, 2007 20:39 UTC (Tue) by zorgan (guest, #4016) [Link]
I can feel a grumpy editor's guide to desktop searching coming on.Yeah, I could really see our editor getting grumpy when he has beagle running on his laptop everytime he starts a session...