DataparkSearch Engine

DataparkSearch Engine is a full-featured open sources web-based search engine released under the GNU General Public License and designed to organize search within a website, group of websites, intranet or local system.

Key features

• Support for http, https, ftp, nntp and news URL schemes.
• htdb virtual URL scheme for indexing SQL databases.
• Indexes text/html, text/xml, text/plain, audio/mpeg (mp3) and image/gif mime types natively.
• External parsers support for other document types, including Microsoft Word, Excel, RTF, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat PDF and Flash.
• Can index multilingual sites using content negotiation.
• Can search all of the word forms using ispell affixes and dictionaries.
• Synonym, acronym and abbreviation query expansion based on editable dictionaries, specified by language and charset.
• Stop-words, synonyms and acronyms lists.
• Options to query with all words, all words near to each others, any words, or Boolean queries. A subset of VQL (Verity Query Language) is supported.
• Popularity Rank based on a neural network model.
• Results can be sorted by relevancy (using vector calculation), popularity rank as "Goo" (adding weight for incoming links), and "Neo" (neural network model), last modified time, and by "importance" (a combination of relevancy and popularity rank).
• Supports wide range of character sets support with automated character set and language detection.
• Offers an accent insensitive search option.
• Provides phrase segmenting (tokenizing) for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai.
• Includes an indexer and a web CGI front-end, as well as a search module for Apache web server (mod_dpsearch).
• Handles Internationalized Domain Names (IDN).
• Summary Extraction Algorithm automatically sums up each document in several sentences.
• Uses If-Modified-Since for efficient transfer of only changed files.
• Can tweak URLs with session IDs and other weird formats, including some JavaScript link decoding.
• Can perform parallel and multi-threaded indexing for faster updating.
• Flexible update scheduling, including options for checking some sections of a site more frequently.
• Handles basic authentication (user name and password) and cookies.
• Stores a compressed text version of the documents for extracting and viewing.
• Can specify a default character set and language for a server or subdirectory, or a list of possible languages.
• Noindex tags: <!--UdmComment-->, <NOINDEX>, <!--noindex-->, Google's special comments <!-- google_ad_section_start -->, <!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --> and <!-- google_ad_section_end --> consider as tags to include/exclude.
• Can specify a content body tag.
• Spellchecking for query words with aspell.
• Flexible options and commands to customize search result pages.
• Effective caching gives significant time reduction in search times.
• Query logging stores the query, query parameters and the number of results found.

Documentation

DataparkSearch documentation is enclosed in release or snapshot distribution in doc subdirectory. And it's also available on-line in English (PDF, 1,471,090 bytes) and in Russian.

You can use our forum to ask about DataparkSearch. Or you may subscribe to DataparkSearch group at Google Groups: groups.google.com/group/dataparksearch/. As well, you can share your experiance using DataparkSearch in DataparkSearch's collaborative documentation (wiki).

DataparkSearch's: ChangeLog (As a RSS feed); PAD file.

Download

Latest DataparkSearch version released: dpsearch-4.52.tar.bz2, 2,175,210 bytes, 25.04.2009, 16:06 MSK

You may try latest snapshot: dpsearch-4.53-04112009.tar.bz2, 2,132,267 bytes, 04.11.2009, 02:22 MSK

dpsearch-spell-ja.tgz, 68,705 bytes, 09.11.2004, 01:06 MSK - Quasi-ispell data for Japanese. THIS IS NOT VALID ISPELL DATA. Can be used only with DataparkSearch 4.27 or later version. All data are in EUC-JP charset.

Additional Data

Frequency dictionaries

Traditional Chinese, 730,641 bytes, 04.09.2008, 12:10 MSK

Mandarin, 394,634 bytes, 04.09.2008, 12:11 MSK

Korean, 30,624 bytes, 04.09.2008, 12:11 MSK

Korean, EUC-KR charset, 246,038 bytes

Thai, 126,572 bytes, 04.09.2008, 12:11 MSK

Synonym lists

English, 774,663 bytes, 04.09.2008, 12:11 MSK

German, 131,880 bytes, 04.09.2008, 12:11 MSK

Italian, 166,684 bytes, 04.09.2008, 12:11 MSK

Polish, 92,158 bytes, 04.09.2008, 12:11 MSK

Russian, 73,968 bytes, 04.09.2008, 12:11 MSK

Acronym and abbreviation lists

English biomedical acronyms and abbreviations, 7,084 bytes, 04.09.2008, 12:10 MSK

Other code

Mirrors

• DataparkSearch at Google Code

Bugs

You may see all open or new bug reports or post your bug reports at Google Code's home.

Sample sites

• 43°N 39°E (PgSQL, cache mode, searchd is used. SQL-server: PIII 670MHz, 512M RAM, IDE SATA 120Gb. Searching PC: Celeron 2.25GHz, 1G RAM, IDE UDMA100. 1'004'109 pages, 1'268'964 sites, 27.06 Gbytes indexed. ). Test search in Chinese, Test search in Japanese, Test search in Korean, Test search in Thai.
• All Sochi's Internet.
• News Lookup Service (MySQL, cache mode, searchd is not used).
• DataparkSearch Engine usage location map

Donate

If you use DataparkSearch and found it useful, or want to encourage further development, feel free to make a donation (at Kagi) to support this project. Any amount is greatfully appreciated.