Contributors (in no particular order)

• Michael Widenius(<monty[at]analytikerna[dot]se>) Solaris and Linux Makefiles for initial versions.
• Greatest MySQLdatabase which gave an initial idea to build SQL based search engine.
• Alexey Zelenin(<alzel[at]izhcom[dot]ru>) Active idea generator and tester
• Gunther Stammwitz(<gstammw[at]gmx[dot]net>) Most active beta tester
• Mustapha MOUGHIT(<emoughit[at]cie[dot]fr>) Initial porting search.phtml to PHP.
• Paolo Romano(<paolo[at]risc220[dot]piaggio[dot]cba[dot]unige[dot]it>) IBM C for AIX Makefile
• Jingyi Zhou(<jzhou[at]airbridge[dot]net>) Active beta tester
• Joao Silva(<JRSilva[at]somague[dot]pt>) Portuguese stoplist
• Rudolf Eichhorn(<re116[at]bingo-ev[dot]de>) Active beta tester
• Ilya Nakvasin(<jin[at]akvilon[dot]ru>) Original version of ForceIISCharset command in indexer.conf.
• Christophe Lauer(<clauer[at]citeweb[dot]net>) French stoplist
• Vadim Tkachenko(<vvtk[at]stealthcomp[dot]com>) Ukrainian stoplist
• Francisco Jose Montilla(<pacopepe[at]raudo[dot]dhis[dot]org>) Spanish stoplist
• Mart Laak(<Mart[dot]Laak[at]active[dot]ee>) PHP3 front-ends speed improvements
• Manfred Bathelt(<Bathelt[at]3SOFT[dot]de>) Fixes of the bug in external parsers support
• Rohan Baxter(<rohan[at]ultimode[dot]com>) Perl front-end
• Builder(<cbob[at]ms[dot]anet[dot]cz>) Czech stoplist
• ZioBudda(<michel[at]michel[dot]enter[dot]it>) search.php3 PHP front-end for PostgreSQL porting from MySQLversion
• Michael Ansley(<Michael[dot]Ansley[at]intec[dot]co[dot]za>) Binary stopwords scan
• Charlie Hornberger(<charlie[at]pressflex[dot]com>) Active idea generator
• Carmelo(<carmelo[at]melting-soft[dot]com>) Initial "Language guesser" implementation
• The Hermit Hacker(<scrappy[at]hub[dot]org>) PostgreSQL optimization issues
• Heiko Stoermer(<stoermer[at]innominate[dot]de>) Extended NEWS archiving mode
• Marcin Marszaek(<azzie[at]staszic[dot]waw[dot]pl>) URL filter in search.cgi for built-in text mode.
• Kirill Maxomov(<kir[at]astrive[dot]ru>) Oracle7 native support
• Maciek Uhlig(<muhlig[at]us[dot]edu[dot]pl>) Polish stoplist
• Tonu Samuel(<tonu[at]please[dot]do[dot]not[dot]remove[dot]this[dot]spam[dot]ee>) MySQLrelated improvements.
• Yannick Warnier(<ywarnier[at]beeznest[dot]org>) Major documentation improvements.

Many other people have contributed ideas/bug reports/fixes etc. Thank you! If we forgot to list you here, please fill free to contact us!