Magellan Metasearch
Magellan Metasearch is a modular meta search engine, enabling users to monitor as many search engines as they want. It provides a complex query language with standard boolean operators, meta-operators (to search through pages' metadata), and proximity operators. This language enables users to perform far more complex queries than what common search engines currently support. It can be fed any custom sources, since its abstraction layer manages the search results and their meta tags in a uniform way. In conjunction with the local process scheduler (such as "cron"), Magellan enables you to save your requests and replay them later automatically; new results are sent through email and RSS in realtime. Magellan also provides full anonymity through smart multi-proxy support.
| Tags | Communications Information Management Records Management Internet Web Dynamic Content CGI Tools/Libraries Indexing/Search Site Management Link Checking Text Processing Indexing |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux Unix |
| Implementation | Perl SQL |
Recent releases
- 30 Apr 2006 12:26
Changes: This release enhances the automated parsing mechanism; the engine now remembers the path to search results within the HTML pages so that it doesn't get fooled with small result sets. Moreover, new virtual sources are automatically tested on creation / update to check their validity.
- 13 Apr 2006 12:56
Changes: Fixes a bug that made it impossible to use virtual sources with MySQL 4.0.24 and above.
- 09 Apr 2006 13:00
Changes: A new online update mechanism has been added, allowing users to interactively download new sources from a central server. The GUI has been redesigned in order to shorten navigation paths for the most common tasks (adding / editing a request). The heuristic extraction code has been improved, so as to better parse HTML pages and to decode search results using non-ASCII character sets. RSS links are now limited by default to the 500 last indexed items. A command line switch has been added that allows users to automagically download source code updates.
- 31 Mar 2006 14:11
Changes: This release fixes a bug in the subscription engine that could prevent users from subscribing correctly to alerts. Several other bugs have been fixed and minor features added.
- 27 Jan 2006 06:35
Changes: This release adds a long-awaited feature: Magellan now enables users to create their own sources online. Two design modes are available. The automated mode tries to interpret the HTML output and extract search results from engines that rely on the URL-TITLE-DESCRIPTION combination. The manual mode lets the user enter Perl search expressions. Source drivers are now much more reliable. When a driver doesn't work anymore, Magellan switches to automated parsing mode and tries to extract search results, even if the search engine has updated its output format.
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Recent commentsRe: I mean... why?
Enjoy the new screenshot ? Mature enough for you ? Did I grow old enough ?
Anyway, thanks for your comments ;)
> First off - I am NOT a Bush fan nor did
> I vote for Bush. But - WHY do you insist
> on targeting President Bush for the sake
> of a screen shot? I refuse to even try
> your software because of the truly
> negative manner in which you are
> advertising it. Don't try to sell an
> idea at the expense of someone else.
> That is extremely hypocritical -
> especially considering the man you are
> targetting. How about applying some
> coherent, sensible content instead of a
> political gimmick? Grow up. This world
> has enough negativity without your
> incoherent travesties.
I mean... why?
First off - I am NOT a Bush fan nor did I vote for Bush. But - WHY do you insist on targeting President Bush for the sake of a screen shot? I refuse to even try your software because of the truly negative manner in which you are advertising it. Don't try to sell an idea at the expense of someone else. That is extremely hypocritical - especially considering the man you are targetting. How about applying some coherent, sensible content instead of a political gimmick? Grow up. This world has enough negativity without your incoherent travesties.