Specialized Search in Linguistics and Languages

Seven Tones ([13]) is a search engine specialized in linguistics and languages. Its current database, which is stored on a single machine, contains approximately 240,000 indexed web pages about linguistics and languages. Nevertheless, the search engine is designed for a much larger capacity. It has been used in several other systems and is feasible to be transplanted into a distributed computing environment. The performance of Seven Tones in terms of relevance and web page quality is better than Google in the area of linguistics and languages.