ht://Dig for WebTen

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About ht://Dig

WebTen supports the popular ht://Dig search engine created at San Diego State University. Please visit the htDig home page. ht://Dig is being used on this site and Xplain Corporation's Search Server. Xplain is the publisher of MacTech magazine.

Features

Intranet searching

ht://Dig has the ability to search through many servers on a network by acting as a WWW browser.
Configurable search results

The output of a search can easily be tailored to your needs by means of providing HTML templates.
Boolean expression searching

Searches can be arbitrarily complex using boolean expressions.
Fuzzy searching

Searches can be performed using various configurable algorithms, such as common word endings and synonyms.
Keywords can be added to HTML documents

Any number of keywords can be added to HTML documents which will not show up when the document is viewed. This is used to make a document more likely to be found and also to make it appear higher in the list of matches.
The depth of the search can be limited

Instead of limiting the search to a set of machines, it can also be restricted to documents that are a certain number of "mouse-clicks" away from the start document.
Searches on subsections of the database

It is easy to set up a search which only returns documents whose URL matches a certain pattern. This becomes very useful for people who want to make their own data searchable without having to use a separate search engine or database.
Scheduled execution

Under WebTen you can run ht://Dig from cron. We've even included a sample crontab file.
A Protected server can be indexed

ht://Dig can be told to use a specific username and password when it retrieves documents. This can be used to index a server or parts of a server that are protected by a username and password.
Email notification of expired documents

Special meta information can be added to HTML documents which can be used to notify the maintainer of those documents at a certain time. It is handy to get reminded when to remove the "New" images from a certain page, for example.
Full support for the ISO-Latin-1 character set

Both SGML entities like 'à' and ISO-Latin-1 characters can be indexed and searched.