Other similar services
FTP search is not the only service offering searching through the
filenames on a set of FTP servers. Some of the other systems are:
- Archie(tm), the original service, which soon became commercial. It is sold by Bunyip Information Systems Inc., which has a
trademark on Archie in some countries.
Many Archie(tm) servers have high response times, one notably exception
is archie.luth.se.
They probably have information about less than 15 millions files.
- Snoopie Internet File Finder
, a fast commercial search service, with information about 20
million files. Does not support substring searches, nor regexp searches.
- ASK -
SINA, a search service giving good search capabilities among
German FTP servers.
- ALLA, a reimplementation of
Archie under GPL license. This search service gives good search capabilities among FTP servers in the Czech Republic.
- NoseyParker, a search
service giving good search capabilities among FTP servers in
the Czech Republic.
For the purpose of comparision, here is a short table:
Service Source code Coverage Functions
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Archie(tm) commercial World, <15M files Regexp
Snoopie commercial World, 20M files prefix
ASK - SINA unknown Germany substring
ALLA GPL, beta soon The Czech Republic Regexp
Nosey Parker GPL, released The Czech Republic Regexp
FTP search GPL, snapshots World, >65M files Regexp
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