09.06.06
Open Source Search Engines
Open source search engines allow participants to make changes and contribute to the improvement of the software. Good information systems also require consistently applied subject analysis and well structured data. Nutch is open source web-search software. It builds on Lucene Java, adding web-specifics, such as a crawler, a link-graph database, parsers for HTML and other document formats, etc.
Nutch could rewrite the rules of search development … especially with an impressive roster of Internet luminaries now lining up behind it.
Open Source may and will be the way of the future when it comes to web based searchs. Ask anyone about the hot applications that are out there and they will most likely tell you search.
