bobbY: a generic incremental index integrated with a full-featured search engine

bobbY was the name of the program I wrote for my Part II (third year) Project. bobbY is a rather gruesome acronym: "brilliantly optimistic bouncing bobbY YAY". I would be interested to know if there are other recursive acronyms out there which don't recurse off their first letter. bobbY is a generic incremental index integrated with a full-featured search engine; by this I mean that files of many types can be indexed, and new types can be added as needed, that files can be added to the index without having to rebuild the whole index, and that one can search bobbY for partial words, boolean combinations of words, and phrases. bobbY turned out not to work terribly well, but you can read the dissertation I wrote on the subject.