The main goal of Search Tools is to facilitate and promote the adoption of the WARC file format for storing web archives by the mainstream web development community by providing an open source software library, a set of command line tools, web server plug-ins and technical documentation for full-text and metadata search of web archive files, or WARC files.

The project is lead by Hanzo Archives.

The mailing list for Search Tools is here... http://groups.google.com/group/search-tools

Search Tools is integrated into the general purpose WARC Tools project.

The longer term plan for Search Tools is to extend the search and analytics API as a foundation for search and analytical applications using web archive files. This application was developed in collaboration with the Oxford Internet Institute and Internet Archive. The content comprises of a comprehensive collection of archived humanities research websites on World War I and World War II, collected as part of the World Wide Web of Humanities (WWWoH) project, funded by NEH and JISC.

If you are looking for Search Tools Consulting or Avi Rappoport then you should go here... http://www.searchtools.com