ASPseek v.1.2
	    Advanced Internet search engine
	Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002 by SWsoft



ASPseek is a full-featured medium-to-large scale Internet search engine.
It consists of an indexing robot, a search daemon and a search front-ends
(CGI or Apache module). These programs are written in C++ using STL library.
ASPseek uses mix of SQL database and binary files for data storage.


	ASPseek features
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To learn about ASPseek features, please read aspseek(7) man page.
Here is just a brief list:

* Ability to index and search through several millions of documents
* HTTP, HTTP proxy, FTP (via proxy) protocols
* HTTP basic authorization
* HTTPS protocol
* text/html and text/plain documents
* Other document types support via external converters
* Architecture optimized for multiple sites
* Multithreaded
* Async DNS resolver
* Stopwords
* Unicode support to deal with many character sets (including CJK) at once
* Charset guesser (optional)
* Language guesser
* Robot exclusion standard (robots.txt) support
* Settings to control network bandwidth usage and Web servers load
* Real-time asynchronous indexing
* Very good relevancy of results
* Sorting results by relevance or by date
* Smart results cache
* Advanced search capabilities
* Ispell support
* Excerpts
* Grouping results by site
* Clones (mirrored documents) detection
* Spaces and subsets
* Query words highlighting in results
* Cached compressed local copy of every indexed document
* HTML templates for easy-to-customize search results


	How to use it
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Please start with reading INSTALL file there you can find detailed instructions
about installation, run-time configuration and usage of ASPseek.


	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