	ASPSeek v.1.2, (C) 2000, 2001, SWsoft
	Advanced Internet search engine
	http://www.aspseek.org/


ASPSeek is full-featured medium-to-large scale SQL-based Internet search
engine. It consists of indexing robot, search daemon and search front-end
(CGI program). These programs are written in C++ using STL library.


	ASPSeek features
	----------------

To learn about ASPSeek features, please read FEATURES file.
Here is just a brief list:

* Ability to index and search through several millions of documents
* HTTP, HTTP proxy, FTP (via proxy) protocols
* HTTP basic authorization
* HTTPS protocol
* text/html and text/plain documents
* Other document types support via external converters
* Architecture optimized for multiple sites
* Multithreadness
* Async DNS resolver
* Stopwords
* UNICODE support (optional) to deal with many charsets at once
* Charset guesser (optional)
* Language guesser
* Robot exclusion standard (robots.txt)
* Settings to control network bandwidth usage and Web servers load
* Real-time asynchronous indexing
* Very good relevancy of results
* Sorting results by relevance or by date
* Smart results cache
* Advanced search capabilities
* Ispell support
* Excerpts
* Grouping results by site (optional)
* Clones detection
* Spaces and subsets
* Query words highlighting in results
* Cached compressed local copy of every indexed document
* HTML templates for easy-to-customize search results


	How to use it
	-------------

Please start with reading INSTALL file there you can find detailed instructions
about installation, run-time configuration and usage of ASPSeek.


	Contribution
	------------

As ASPSeek is free software project, any type of contribution is
very welcome. Please send patches, bugreports, ideas etc. to
developers <aseek@sw.com.sg>

You can also subscribe to ASPSeek users mailing list to ask questions,
share ideas, and communicate in general with other users and developers.
To subscribe, please send mail to majordomo@lists.asplinux.ru with the line
"subscribe aseek-users" in message body.


	Disclaimer (see COPYING for details)
	------------------------------------

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
