Glimpse HTTP Features
Glimpse HTTP allows anyone who maintains web pages to quickly and
easily allow users to search through their pages.
Some features include:
- Combined browsing and searching; first, you locate the directory
where the relevant information might be located, then you can use
search to locate specific files.
- The result of a search is nicely formatted hypertext with hyperlinks
to matching documents
- Easy generation of search pages
- Configurable search pages
- Well-documented scripts and complete on-line documentation
- Easy installation
- Non-centralized archive management, allowing separate users to maintain
separate archives with no special permissions needed
- Uses the Glimpse
search engine, which provides some unique features:
- Uses a very small index (3-5% of the total text)
- Very fast search
- Search for approximate match allowing errors
For more information, see the Glimpse HTTP overview.
Return to the Glimpse HTTP home page

Maintained by Michael Smith
glimpse@cs.arizona.edu