Desktop Search Engine for Linux

Musa@Mahmud, Ahmad Razif (2005) Desktop Search Engine for Linux. [Final Year Project] (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Desktop Search Engine become more popular for personal and enterprise
after some difficulties occurs when dealing with the huge amount of files and in a
multi-user environment. Desktop Search Engine for Linux is a desktop search tool,
integrated between Namazu with web-based interface that can search text format
files inthe hard drive ofpersonal computer. As increasingly demand for aneffective
and efficient desktop search tools especially for the Linux environment where there
were just a few tools have been developed for Linux compared for Windows
although the usage of Linux operating system are increased from days to days. This
system is just for Linux (Debian platform) operating system and just search for a
text format files. This system index the entire words of files in the hard drive and
create one index files that contains all details about the files in the disk. The system
just refers to this index files when processing the searching process for a fast and
effective results. From the studies and analysis that has been done during the
development of this system, there have a benchmark criterion for desktop search
tools that can be use as a reference and also a lot of indexer that can be used to index
the files. Only the best indexer was be taken to integrate with this system. This
system still can be improved with the support, effort and deep knowledge about
desktop searchtools and technical skills.

Item Type: Final Year Project
Subjects: Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources
Departments / MOR / COE: Sciences and Information Technology
Depositing User: Users 2053 not found.
Date Deposited: 27 Sep 2013 10:57
Last Modified: 25 Jan 2017 09:46
URI: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/6900

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