Subject Search Server indexes local text and HTML files only, handles many languages and character sets. It has a technical and ambitious interface, offering control over the length and number of extracts to display, as well as defaulting to fuzzy search — matching parts of the query terms rather than the more standard exact match — which can be changed in the search form. Although it’s free (with a link to the Kryloff site) on Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, it lacks a robot spider for indexing via HTTP, has less-than-user-friendly search form and results pages, and has no admin interface, using only configuration files.

Search tools discontinued or no longer developed
The Siteforum Docfather search engine is now part of the SFS-Software Siteforum Online Enterprise Suite.The Harvest suites of web crawling and robot spidering tools are no longer being developed. They were some of the first developed in the field, and were widely used in the 1990s for locating and collecting information using multiple standard protocols.Rutersearch is gone: it was a personal project and is no longer distributed.

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