On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 16:01 +0000, Silicon Shaman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Julie Karasik > <[email protected]> wrote: > I dunno if this is a dumb idea and/or completely unfeasible, > but has any thought been given to integrating google's search > appliance? (http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/) > > hmm... wonder if it would be possible to kludge something to bolt it > on with..or if it would be easier to use google site search function > and just kludge in the XML into the pages.. > > I mean, why re-invent the wheel?
Because the first wheel was made of stone. Seriously; there's often room for improvement, and sometimes reinventing from a clean functional spec is a better way of reaching that improvement than incremental development of the existing implementation. More specifically, regarding site search features... Google site search only works to the extent that Google decide to spider your site, and is dependent on their algorithms' decisions on what is or isn't worthwhile content to index. An internal search engine can run straight from your database, massively reducing the load on your web front-end, and you can set your own priorities and preferences. There are doubtless many other reasons to prefer 'reinventing' this particular wheel too. Regards, Denny _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
