FDSE:

FDSE is an easy-to-install search engine for local and remote sites. It returns fast, accurate results from a template-driven architecture. Freeware and shareware versions are available with Perl source

• FDSE is a search engine that you install on your own site. Visitors to your site use it to find files on your site or on a small cluster of sites. The search box at the top of this page is an example of how FDSE is typically used.
• FDSE is different than Google or Altavista, which search the entire Internet. FDSE only searches the sites that you tell it to. It can handle about 10,000 documents in all, which is plenty for one site but much fewer than the total number of documents on the Internet.
• FDSE is smaller than Google or Altavista, but it is qualitatively identical to them. It has its own built-in web robot for retreiving files, which means it is not limited to searching only documents on its own server. It builds its own index files and returns results from them, unlike some "meta-search" scripts which make behind-the-scenes requests to major search engines to gather results.
• FDSE runs entirely on your server, so visitors aren't redirected to a separate centralized server to get their results (as with Atomz and Freefind). If your web server doesn't support Perl CGI at all, then you might be better off with one of those remotely-hosted solutions.
• FDSE is a flat search engine - it accepts keywords and shows a ranked list of search results. It does not organize pages into browsable categories and subcategories like Yahoo does.

FDSE Details:

• Submitted by: Jason Mullett
• Date: 10/01/2004
• Licence: freeware and shareware versions
• Official Website: Fluid Dynamics Search Engine
• Download Link: Download the package

FDSE Screenshots: