mnoGoSearch v.3.3  by mnoGoSearch Developers Team
Full featured web search engine
Please see the file COPYING for license information
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General
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mnoGoSearch is a full-featured web search engine.
mnoGoSearch consists of two parts. The first part is indexing mechanism (indexer).
Indexer walks over html hypertext links and stores found words and
new references into its database. The second part is web CGI front-end to
provide search using data collected by indexer.
PHP3 and Perl front-ends are also included.


Main features are:
* HTTP support
* HTTP proxy support
* HTTPS support
* FTP support
* NNTP support (both news:// and nntp:// URL schemes)
* HTDB virtual URL scheme support
  You can build a full-text index on big text columns
  of your SQL table.
* SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, InterBase, Oracle,
  MS SQL, Mimer, Sybase databases support.
* iODBC, unixODBC, EasySoft ODBC-ODBC bridge interfaces support.
* built-in parsers for HTML, XML, text, DOCX, RTF and message (*.eml) files
* external parsers support for other document types
* gzip, compress, deflate Content-Encoding support
* fuzzy search: stemming, synonyms, substring search
* basic authorization support to index password protected sites
* proxy authorization support
* it's reenterant. Multiple indexing and search processes
  are possible at the same time on the search same database.
* Multi-threaded crawling
* stop-list support
* Robots exclusion protocol is fully supported, including robots.txt,
  robot meta tags and HTTP headers
* C language CGI, PHP3, Perl web front-ends
* phrase search
* boolean query language support
* sorting results by score, date, title, as well as user defined sorting
* most of the modern widely used character sets are supported,
  including multi-byte Korean, Chinese, Japanese character sets and UTF8.
* automatic language/charset guesser for about 70 language/charset
  combinations
* HTML templates to customize search results look
* advanced search options like time limits etc.


Where to get it?
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Check for the latest version of mnoGoSearch at:
http://www.mnogosearch.org/


Support
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You can get help on our mail lists and webboards.
We also offer some extended support options.
Please refer to our support page for further information:

http://www.mnogosearch.org/support.html


How do I use it?
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Refer to our online documentation at
http://www.mnogosearch.org/doc.html

Disclaimer (see COPYING for details)
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307 USA

Obtaining a commercial license
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If you don't want to be restricted by the terms of GNU GPL,
please contact  <order@mnogosearch.org> to obtain a commercial license.
