What is SWISH?
SWISH stands for Simple Web Indexing System for Humans. With it, you can index directories of files and search the generated indexes. For an example of swish can do, try searching for the words “office and map” at EIT. All of the search databases you see there were indexed by swish. When you do a search, it’s the swish program that’s doing the actual searching. SWISH was created to fill the need of the growing number of Web administrators on the Internet – many current indexing systems are not well documented, are hard to use and install, and are too complex for their own good. Here are some pros and cons regarding SWISH: • It’s simple. I’ve tried to make SWISH as simple as possible while keeping some of the things that people look for in an indexer. The drawback is that you can’t do many things that full-featured indexers and searching programs can do, such as stemming (searching for different versions of a word) or the use of synonyms. • It’s made for Web sites. In indexing HTML file
