Desktop Search Engine for Linux

• Main Author: Musa@Mahmud, Ahmad Razif
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi Petronas 2005
• Subjects: ZA Information resources
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/6900/1/2006%20-%20Desktop%20Search%20Engine%20for%20Linux.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/6900/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

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.