Re: I'm looking for a search engine for a text-oriented CD I want to publish

On 6/10/05, A.J. Levy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Has anyone had any experience (good or bad) with document search
> engines for CDs? Does anyone have any recommendation, comments, or
> suggestions?

I don't have a specific product to recommend, but what occurs to me is
that it sounds like maybe you need an index, not a search engine.

The advantage to an index is that you don't need any special software
on the CD - it could be done in Acrobat/PDF or HTML or some similar
format. Also, then you don't need to worry about Windows vs Mac vs
Linux and the various flavors of each OS and whether or not they can
use whatever program you include. I am also concerned that a search
engine that didn't have a prebuilt index might run unreasonably slowly
when reading an entire CD's worth of data searching for the user's
query, since many CD/DVD drives are not fast compared to hard disks or
RAM.

The downside is that users can't necessarily put together ad hoc
queries like "2003 and 'eminent domain' and 'judge smith'" or whatever
- but I don't know if that's something that's very likely given your
users and your content.

-- 
Greg Broiles, JD, EA
[email protected] (Lists only. Not for confidential communications.)
Law Office of Gregory A. Broiles
San Jose, CA




-/-/-/-/-/

There is a read/write Web page with resources that will be linked there and used during the Seminar on PDFs for lawyers and legal applications:

http://Network-Lawyers.org/PDFLinks

-/-/-/-/-/


 
Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Network-Lawyers/

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    Network-Lawyers-unsubscribe-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@public.gmane.org

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/