mnoGoSearch 3.2 Reference Manual

Chapter 1. Introduction

Table of Contents

Contributors (in no particular order)

mnoGoSearch is a full-featured SQL based web search engine. mnoGoSearch consists of two parts. The first part is indexing mechanism (indexer). Indexer walks over html hypertext references and stores found words and new references into database. The second part is web CGI front-end to provide search using data collected by indexer. There are also PHP3 and Perl front-ends available from our site www.mnogosearch.org.

mnoGoSearch first release took place in November 1998. The search engine had the name of UDMSearch untill October 2000 when the project was acquired by Lavtech.Com Corp. and changed its name to mnoGoSearch.

The latest changelog can be found on our website.

mnoGoSearch Features

Main mnoGoSearch features are as follows:

Built-in database support for small sites.
MySQL (libz library required), PostgreSQL, mSQL, Solid, iODBC, unixODBC, EasySoft ODBC-ODBC bridge, Virtuoso, InterBase, Oracle (see the section called “Oracle notes”), SyBase, MS SQL, SAPDB SQL, DB2 (see the section called “IBM DB2 notes”) backends support.
HTTP support.
HTTP proxy support.
HTTPS support.
FTP support.
NNTP support (both news:// and nntp:// URL schemes).
HTDB virtual URL scheme support. One may build index and search through the big text fields/blobs of SQL database.
Mirroring features.
text/html and text/plain built-in support.
External parsers support for other document types.
Searching all of the word forms using ispell affixes and dictionaries
Basic authorization support. One may index password protected intranet HTTP servers.
Proxy authorization support.
Reentry capability. One may use several indexing and searching processes at the same time even on the same database. Multi-threaded indexing support.
Stop-list support.
<META NAME="robots" content="..."> and robots.txt support.
C language CGI, PHP3, Perl web front-ends.
Boolean query language support.
Fuzzy search: different word forms, synonyms, substrings.
Best matching documents are found first.
Various character sets support
HTML templates to easily customize search results.
Advanced search options like time limits, category limits etc.