[Seeks-announce] Release: Seeks SOLO proxy version Bubs-0.2-stable

[Emmanuel B. <ebe...@se...>]

Second public release of the Seeks proxy with metasearch plugins.

Main features:
- automatic query interception.
- consensus-based metasearch engine replacement for your queries
to the main search engines.
- aggregates results from Google, Bing, Cuil, Yahoo & Exalead.
- implements a similarity engine for resorting websearch results
based on their similarity to a selected content.
- provides a plugin system for http interception, websearch engine
integration and web content filtering/remashing.

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Changelog for release Bubs-0.2-SOLO:
This releases enables a set of novel websearch features, fixes bugs
in the machinery, eases the deployment of public Seeks nodes.
As such this the first truely mature of the SOLO releases.

- Support for multiple languages. This includes:
  ¤ Automatic language detection from the http headers.
  * In-query language command.
  ¤ Stop word list in content analysis, in multiple languages.
  
- Clustering of websearch results.
  ¤ Online sphercial k-means.
  ¤ Two clustering modes, from websearch snippets summaries,
    from automatically downloaded and analyzed web content.
  ¤ Automated computation of cluster labels. 
  ¤ Cluster labels as extended queries.

- Improved automatic similarity of results with tf-idf
  feature generation.

- Automatic reload of configuration files at runtime when 
  changes are made.

- Sorting and grouping of websearch results, by urls, titles,
  and result types (webpage, wiki, pdf, videos, mp3, other files,
  ...).

- Added optional thumbails of websearch results.

- Improved parsing of supported search engines, and added
  support for Yahoo! Search and Exalead.
  
- Much improved Makefiles and template serving functions.

- Added top banner for displaying the Seeks node information.

- Added Access Control List (ACL). Allows to block and/or filter
  authorized connections by IP address. Helpful to secure public
  nodes.

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Requirements:
- Linux or other unix-flavored operating system.

The release source code can be dowloaded from Sourceforge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/seeks/files/

See the Download and install page for information on requirements
and how to compile the source code:
http://www.seeks-project.info/wiki/index.php/Documentation

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Usage:
http://www.seeks-project.info/wiki/index.php/Documentation

Tips and troubleshootings:
http://www.seeks-project.info/wiki/index.php/Tips_%26_Troubleshooting

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A live demo is running at:
http://www.seeks-project.info/search.php

The node above is public, IPs and queries are not logged out.

Please report bugs and troubleshooting, using available tools.

See the main webpage for information,

http://www.seeks-project.info/