edit(I'm assuming, since i'm always wallowing in python or rails, that google desktop, regain, don't have the control over stemming and tokenization that you wa

edit(I'm assuming, since i'm always wallowing in python or rails, that google desktop, regain, don't have the control over stemming and tokenization that you want...) here's regain http://regain.sourceforge.net/ http://regain.sourceforge.net/ to my knowledge, Aksyonoff's sphinx only hits mysql and postgres. The ferret lib for ruby lists this funcitonality, i haven't tried it http://datanoise.com/articles/2006/9/5/fun-with-ferret http://datanoise.com/articles/2006/9/5/fun-with-ferret