Glimpse is the Search Engine, Webglimpse is the Spider

Glimpse is a fast engine for indexing and searching text files on a Unix system. Webglimpse is the spider and manager for the files to be searched. In combination, they can work to index and search your own "corner" of the web, defined by the links you place on a starting page. We also use the term "Webglimpse" to refer to the combined use of the management scripts and the search engine.

Webglimpse is a fast, flexible search engine for finding information in a related web of pages.

Features & Requirements

Who are you guys, anyway? Where did Glimpse come from?

The ability to index pages on remote sites provides a level of power one step above most search engine tools. You can define your own sub-area of the web simply by making a page of links to all relevent sites. Webglimpse will search by following your links, to whatever 'depth' you specify.


History of Glimpse/Webglimpse

Glimpse and Webglimpse were originally developed by a team at the University of Arizona. For more information about the development of Webglimpse, or other projects the glimpse team has done, check out http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/webglimpse/index.html

Since 1997 (Webglimpse version 1.2), development has been continued by Internet WorkShop. The main work is done in house, but several users around the world have also contributed valuable fixes and features. We use an open code model and license-for-work, in which anyone can receive a license in exchange for doing development, testing or documentation.


Note - glimpse 4.0 and earlier did not require a license for commercial use; that requirement became effective with the release of glimpse 4.1. Sorry for previous information posted here that stated the licenses were the same, that was incorrect. Back to top


Back to Webglimpse.NetBack to webglimpse.net