Open Source C Search Engines

The stuff here has no documentation and some of it may never be completed. This is my playground, use at your own risk.

Virtuoso is a scalable cross-platform server that combines Relational, Graph, and Document Data Management with Web Application Server and Web Services Platform functionality.

Greenstone is a complete digital library creation, management and distribution package created and distributed by the New Zealand Digital Library Project. There are two major versions of the software. Greenstone 3 is under active development, and is recommended for download. We also provide maintenance releases for its forerunner, Greenstone 2. Featured download not what you're looking for? Click "Browse all files" to access binaries and source releases of both versions.

The BeeGram library is a portable open source search engine toolkit written in C. BeeGram provides a number of building blocks for the construction of powerful general-purpose text-based search tools.

ReHash is an easy-to-use console-based hash calculation tool written in C++. It supports many algorithms and output formats and it can be fully configured using some of the many command-line arguments which can be passed to the tool.

A C Implementation of an OAI-PMH Static Repository Gateway.

The ht://Dig system is a complete indexing and searching system for a domain or intranet. This system is not meant to replace the need for powerful internet-wide search systems like Lycos, Infoseek, Google and AltaVista.

"girtools" is an implementation of Grid Information Retrieval (GIR). GIR is an emerging open standard for IR on the grid designed to allow dynamic, secure creation and searching of distributed information systems.

Hyper Estraier is a full-text search system. It works as with Google, but based on peer-to-peer architecture. Using Hyper Estraier, we can construct a large-scaled search engine with cheap computers.

BLySP is in development as a mean to research and test new and improved P2P protocols. BLySP will, in a near future, make use of BestLyrics to collect the necessary resources (i.e. computers) to accomplish the difficult task of testing and tuning protoco

Net Ferret is a tool to help you get quicker results when searching the internet. It runs as an applet in the GNOME toolbar. Net Ferret currently features 23 different search engines, and includes a one-touch button for updating the list via the web.

Methanol is a scriptable multi-purpose web crawling system with an extensible configuration system and speed-optimized architectural design. Methabot is the web crawler of Methanol.

The Infomap NLP software performs automatic indexing of words and documents from free-text corpora, using a variant of LSA to enable information retrieval and other applications. It was developed by the Infomap Project at Stanford University's CSLI.

OpenFTS (Open Source Full Text Search engine) is an advanced PostgreSQL-based search engine that provides online indexing of data and relevance ranking for database searching. Close integration with database allows use of metadata to restrict search re

AIS - Associative Indexing Service, an application for storing bookmarks, memos, indexing of big (lifetime) archives for fast future access to the data by (personalized) keywords. In other words - it is an extension of human associative memory :)

ezMPEG is an easy-to-use and easy-to-understand MPEG1 video encoder API

FileStructureToHTML literally creates an .html file for mp3´s, videos and more of your selected drive or a specific directory. The files can be organized in a tree, listing or in a table. Gain a whole new way of viewing your file list.

Fleming File Sharing System is a networked file sharing system. It should be much more reliable and user-friendly than FTP or netbios's stuff.

J-DAWN project is a Job-Directed Automated Web Navigator. It can retrieve network tasks, and schedule and execute them. Part of its power lies in the ability to define tasks using a graphical programming language based on an underlying XML foundation.

Mobilemaps is a Nearby Engine which allows users to find Web pages by location. Extremely fast and capable of scaling to any number of pages, it supports OpenGIS map-servers and uses MySQL, Perl and C.

My Community Portal is a all in one internet portal that offers, forum, groups, chat, your own e-mail, search engine, internet directory, your own home page, poll's, dating services, buddy list, MP3 and file sharing, and many more.

Sprawler is the first Open Source internet search engine software and service - built by the community, for the community. It will address the various reasons most search engines today still are far from being where they need to be.

A threaded C application that searches torrent trackers/indexers for .torrent files and sorts the results according to user defined criteria. Uses glib2.0 and libcurl4

wig is a simple web image grabber. Wig uses wget to download an image from the web and display it on your desktop; updating the image every X seconds. Written using C and GTK+. Have fun wiggin' out :)

3store is an RDF "triple store", written in C and backed by MySQL and Berkeley DB. It is an optimisation and port of an older triple store (WebKBC). It provides access to the RDF data via RDQL or SPARQL over HTTP, on the command line or via a C API.