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The Gopher protocol (/ ˈ ɡ oʊ f ər /) is a communication protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents in Internet Protocol networks. The design of the Gopher protocol and user interface is menu-driven, and presented an alternative to the World Wide Web in its early stages, but ultimately fell into disfavor, yielding to Hypertext Transfer Protocol ().
Apache Lucene. Apache Lucene is a free and open-source search engine software library, originally written in Java by Doug Cutting. It is supported by the Apache Software Foundation and is released under the Apache Software License. Lucene is widely used as a standard foundation for production search applications. [ 2][ 3][ 4]
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [ 1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. [ 2]
Some engines suggest queries when the user is typing in the search box. A search engine is a software system that provides hyperlinks to web pages and other relevant information on the Web in response to a user's query. The user inputs a query within a web browser or a mobile app, and the search results are often a list of hyperlinks ...
Searx. Searx ( / sɜːrks /; stylized as searX) is a free and open-source metasearch engine, [ 4] available under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3, with the aim of protecting the privacy of its users. [ 5][ 6][ 7] To this end, Searx does not share users' IP addresses or search history with the search engines from which it gathers ...
Desktop search product with Outlook plugin and limited support for other formats via IFilters, uses Lucene search engine. Proprietary (14-day trial) [7] Nepomuk: Linux: Open-source semantic desktop search tool for Linux. Has been replaced by Baloo in KDE Applications from release 4.13 onward. License SA 3.0 and the GNU Free Documentation ...
Open-source, cross-platform C library to generate PDF files. OpenPDF: GNU LGPLv3 / MPLv2.0: Open source library to create and manipulate PDF files in Java. Fork of an older version of iText, but with the original LGPL / MPL license. PDFsharp: MIT C# developer library to create, extract, edit PDF files. Poppler: GNU GPL
The WebCrawler search engine, created by Brian Pinkerton at the University of Washington, is released. [14] Unlike its predecessors, it allows users to search for any word in any webpage, which has become the standard for all major search engines since. July: New web search engine: Lycos, a web search engine, is released. [14]