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Search/Kinosearch version 0.02
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NAME

    Search::Kinosearch - search engine library

DESCRIPTION

    Kinosearch is a fast, extensible search engine library.  Its features
        include: 

        * Match 'any' or 'all' search terms 
        * Match phrases 
        * Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT 
        * Support for parenthetical groupings of arbitrary depth 
        * Prepended +plus or -minus to require or negate a term 
        * Sort results by relevance or by date 
        * Stemming
        * Algorithmic selection of relevant excerpts 
        * Hilighting of search terms in excerpts, even when stemmed 
        * Fast, efficient algorithms for both indexing and searching 
        * Works well with large or small document collections 
        * High quality ranking algorithm based on term frequency / inverse 
            document frequency (tf/idf)

INSTALLATION

    To install this module type the following:

        perl Makefile.PL
        make
        make test
        make install

DEPENDENCIES

    This module requires these other modules and libraries:

        Sort::External
        Digest::MD5
        String::CRC32
        Compress::Zlib
        Lingua::Stem::Snowball
        Test::Exception

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

    Copyright (C) 2005 Marvin Humphrey

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the same terms as Perl itself. 
