open-source-search-engine

An open source web search engine and spider/crawler. This was once the codebase for a search engine called Gigablast, but the site is no longer operational. This is a fork of the original codebase located at https://github.com/gigablast/open-source-search-engine

Quick Start

To experiment, you can quickly launch via docker by running:

docker run -p 8000:8000 -it --rm moldybits/open-source-search-engine

If you wish to preserve data between runs, you can:

docker run -p 8000:8000 -it --rm -v $(pwd)/data:/var/gigablast/data0 moldybits/open-source-search-engine

Building

This does not build on ARM and does not work correctly on modern versions of MacOS, though it looks like there once was support at one point in time.

Debian or Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install make g++ libssl-dev libz-dev

RedHat or AlmaLinux

I haven't tried this lately...

sudo yum install gcc-c++ openssl-devel

Issues & Pull Requests

Should be filed at https://github.com/twistdroach/open-source-search-engine

Documentation

There are various docs located in the html directory. The FAQ & developer.html are particularly interesting.

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