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Subject: Mentor(s) required for a search engine project
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:04:14 +0100
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Thread-Topic: Mentor(s) required for a search engine project
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From: <kozlovsky@sipo.gess.ethz.ch>
To: <general@incubator.apache.org>

Hello,
I am looking for a Mentor(s) for the following project.
We are developing a new open source search engine provisionally named =
"Locust" and are looking for an open source organization to host this =
project. The main features of Locust are:
*	 High performance - about one million documents per day on a Dell =
PowerEdge 2500 server, index size of up to ten million documents with =
fast search is successfully used.
*	 Integration of full-text search with directory assisted search (Yahoo =
style) is built in.
*	A multi-threaded Linux application written in C++ with STL.
Locust is based on complete rewriting of another open search engine =
ASPseek (http://www.aspseek.org/). The reason for rewriting was a dismal =
state of ASPseek code that made it impossible to develop it further. =
Whoever wrote it made a very good job on general architecture and =
features, but had no idea about software engineering. New code is =
reasonably clean and modular. Although it generally mimics the =
functionality of ASPseek (plus added integration with directories and =
better document set selection), it is possible now, due to its modular =
structure, to develop the code in many interesting direction, such as =
indexing document from different sources (in addition to the Web), =
creating distributed search services where many Locust based search =
engines cooperate via TCP/IP, etc.

I would be glad to provide more information to potential Mentors.

        Gregory Kozlovsky

Project Manager for Information Systems 		Tel: +41 (0)1 632 63 70
International Relations and Security Network (ISN)	Fax: +41 (0)1 632 14 =
13
Center for Security Studies 				Email: kozlovsky@sipo.gess.ethz.ch
ETH Z=FCrich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich)	=
http://www.isn.ch/
Leonhardshalde 21, ETH-Zentrum / LEH
CH-8092 Z=FCrich, Switzerland


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