I have found the following to be true of lucene and not necessarily with Verity:
* Free/open source
* Limitless indexed entities
* Cross-platform compatibility
* Full control over searching and indexing
* Index portablility (can create an index anywhere and use it anywhere - web,cdrom,locally,etc)
Verity is very flexible, i just happen to happen to enjoy the level of control and portability of Lucene over it. Use whatever works for you and your applications, though.. I prefer to have an engine that works with my application, rather than an application that works with my search engine.
I do urge anyone interested to draw their own conclusions based on their experiences :)
HTH
-Ryan
-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Bowers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 9:28 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Alternatives to Verity
Ryan Emerle wrote:
re: lucene
> It's really amazing how well this search engine works. It is far more
> flexible than Verity.
What exactly is more flexible than Verity? I'm an old Verity hack from
way back -- and I'm interested in Lucene but can't really see what it
does that's so special.
-- geoff bowers
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