Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006, 7:29 am
Portable, Free, and Open Source Search Engine
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Zettair is a light and compact search engine. It is supposedly suitable for indexing one’s personal files and then searching them. This tends to remind me of Google Desktop and some weaker equivalents that are bolted onto the operating system. On the contrary, Zettair is both free and Open Source. Is it also available for a large variety of platforms, namely:
- Linux
- FreeBSD
- Mac OS X
- Solaris
- Windows
- Cygwin
I have not had the chance to try it, but it sounds fascinating as a free tool that can be modified and extended. Once I complete my Ph.D., there is a good chance that I will resume work on Iuron, which is an Open Source knowledge engine. I wrote a couple of proposals for it last year. Time limitation don’t permit further progress, at least for the time being.
