Pinot 0.63 review

Pinot is a metasearch tool for the Free Desktop built mostly around the GTKmm toolkit, the Xapian IR library and the language guessin

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Fabrice Colin

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Pinot is a metasearch tool for the Free Desktop built mostly around the GTKmm toolkit, the Xapian IR library and the language guessing functionality of libtextcat. It enables one to query sources, display as well as analyze and locally index the returned results.

Supported sources are Sherlock-type search plugins (as used by Mozilla FireFox), the Google and ObjectsSearch SOAP APIs, and Xapian indexes (local or remotely served by xapian-tcpsrv).

The type of documents is currently limited to plain text, HTML, PDF and MS Word but it is expected that more formats will be supported through plugins as the project matures.

The main goal is to make all these search engines easily available to the end-user. The second goal is to harness Xapian (and maybe other IR toolkits like CLucence in the future) to index the user's personal documents. In other words, Pinot is moving towards what Beagle and Kat do, while still retaining a focus on metasearch.

Pinot is free software and is covered by the GPL.

Requirements:
gtkmm
Xapian
libtextcat
OTS
SQLite
mozilla
libxml++
gamin
neon
GMime
boost
pdftohtml
antiword

What's New in This Release:
Fixed a memory leak in the tokenizers that primarily affected the daemon.
Use xdg Autostart to start the daemon automatically.
Prettified the metasearch UI.
Fixed highlighting of abstracts.
Fixed clipboard copy of results.
Fixed download and parsing of non-Latin results from some Web engines.