Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com) [LWN.net]

Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com)

Posted Apr 24, 2007 15:07 UTC (Tue) by job (subscriber, #670)
In reply to: Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com) by akumria
Parent article: Recoll: A search engine for the Linux desktop (Linux.com)

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.

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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.