ask jeeves 准备发布开源的桌面搜索引擎

ask jeeves 准备发布开源的桌面搜索引擎

在ask Jeeves的blog上他们写道：
Ask Jeeves Blog: Mozilla's On Fire: "We discussed Ask Jeeves desktop search and the notion of open-sourcing it. We're open at two levels. Contributing just the core desktop indexing technology or possibly the entire desktop search application. They discussed how/what they would evaluate before accepting a major piece of code/product contribution: code size, internationalization, etc. Whether or not we partner with Mozilla on this effort, Chris and team thought it was a good idea for us to pursue overall."

也就是说可能发布一个全新的搜索引擎或者仿照lucene发布一个核心的搜索组件。

说起这个我觉得Clucene也可以作为一个桌面搜索引擎的核心组件，只不过桌面搜索要求更高。
比如：文件格式种类繁多；
索引文件空间不能太大；
要在机器cpu闲置的时候使用等等。

另外Clucene是采用stl编写的，也是个学习的好范例。