Desktop search tool using lucene

[Per Bjornsson]

On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 12:18 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 03:58:29PM +1000, Mike MacCana wrote:
> > They (meaning engineers at redhat) are discussing this. The solution
> > won't use Lucene, as Lucene treats all fine content as equal - ie, it
> > doesn't know about headings being different from body text and so on.
> 
> One possibility is the muscat engine - thats open source could probably do the
> job well. It's a little weak on revoking content from the index without a
> rebuild.

I think it's the Xapian engine you're talking about?
http://xapian.org/
GPL, written in C++. Apparently it's being tried out for use as the
Gmane search engine.

/Per