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January 02, 2008
Carrot: open source clustering search engine
Looking for a free search engine to install on your library's website? Check out Carrot, an open source clustering search engine. Below is what I get for a search for San Francisco.
You can try out the demo searching site to see how it works, or download it yourself to install on any site you choose. Not only does it cluster results by topic area, site, and sources, it also offers multiple tabs -- so you can be searching various sites/resources at once (in the demo, it's the web, Yahoo! News, Wikipedia, etc.). This could be quite handy for a library that could get this to work with databases...faceted search across multiple databases. A tab for the catalog, one for the library's eBooks, one for research databases, one for the library website, and one for the open web. Ah, to dream!
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There are a number of clustering search engines that offer a version of their software for people to use on their websites. If you like Carrot, contact them and ask for information.
Posted by: Sarah Houghton-Jan (LiB) | April29, 2008
Hello,
I came across your blog through searching for a tutorial that explains more about how to integrate this clustering engine into my website. I need some help in understanding the concept and connection to Nutch! I am looking to get a new crawler / indexer to display better results like carrot. I think that the software is much faster than the current 1-500 pages of results, I want this soo badly. Any suggestions?
-Chad-
Posted by: Chad Buie | April29, 2008
SearchBlox is another search engine that offers built-in clustering using carrot. SearchBlox offers a web based admin console and you can cluster your own information.
Posted by: tss | January14, 2008
Just wanted to say thanks for sharing this site! I thought I had seen all...well a fair number, of the search engines that were out there, but hadn't seen this one or one like it. I've linked to your posting on lisnews so that others may know of it.
Posted by: Andrew | January 7, 2008
