Welcome!

OBSearch is a distributed similarity search index. Examples of things you can do with OBSearch:

  • Match programs and help to detect Open Source/Libre license violations.
  • Find music that sounds like Sisters of Mercy.
  • Match huge vectors of randomly generated integers just for fun.

This project started as part of Google Summer of Code 2007. The mentoring organization was Portland State University and the mentors were Cynthia Brown and Barton Massey.