[Zope-PTK] Searching a LocalFS through Zope

[Spicklemire, Jerry]

neeloy_saha asked:

> Has anyone used a FREE external search engine ith zope before. 
> If so which one is it ???

I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but check out:

	http://ransacker.sourceforge.net/

"Ransacker is a scriptable, incrementally-double-indexed search 
engine written in python.

It's scriptable in that you can index any text with any key. 
This makes it easy to index content ("pages") stored in databases, 
file systems, the web, etc.

It can index incrementally. This means you can add content or update 
the entry for a particular page without touching the rest of the index.

It's double-indexed, meaning that not only does every word have a list 
of pages, every page has a list of words. This is used for the 
incremental indexer, but also allows you to determine which pages have 
the most in common. This will allow ransacker to produce 
"what's related" pages."