Glimpse Gateway

Glimpse (which stands for GLobal IMPicit SEarch) is an indexing and query system that allows you to search through all your files very quickly. For example, a search for Schwarzkopf allowing two misspelling errors in 5600 files occupying 77MB took 7 seconds on a SUN IPC. Glimpse supports most of agrep’s options (agrep is our powerful version of grep) including approximate matching (e.g., finding misspelled words), Boolean queries, and even some limited forms of regular expressions.
Glimpse’s running time is typically slower than systems tems using inverted indexes, but its index is an order of magnitude smaller (typically 2-5% of the size of the files).

Authors of Glimpse

Udi Manber, Sun Wu, and Burra Gopal
Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721.
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