OpenSE is a general Chinese search engine implemented in C++ on linux. It consists of four basic modules: crawler, index, query server, and query cgi. This search engine provides web pages query service according to some key words, or a query string given by users. The search results responding to users consists of some item lists. Each item consists of a title, a extract, a url link, and a snapshot link of a web page containing query words given by users. Users can click the snapshot link to see the snapshot of conresponding web page in the openSE database. This search engine is designed for supporting large number of web pages searching.
