Soekia is free software according to the "GNU General Public License". The source code is open to anybody. You may use, copy and distribute Soekia as often as you like. We only insist on including our copyright note along with your distribution.
Yes and no. There is a German book on information retrieval that illustrates concepts of search engines. The ranking principles of Soekia are take from this book.
Werner Hartmann, Michael Näf, Peter Schäuble: Informationsbeschaffung im Internet, Grundlegende Konzepte verstehen und umsetzen, Orell Füssli, 2000, ISBN 3-280-02793-4.
«Soekia» is Norse and means "to search".
Soekia is free software accordung to the "GNU General Public License". Not included is the code of Apache's "Jakarta Lucene" distributed under the "Apache Software License".
©2003 Matthias Dreier and Werner Hartmann