Sean Dague wrote:
> On 11/04/2010 09:08 AM, John Mort wrote:
> > Does anyone know of any free or inexpensive intranet search engines out
> > there that have worked well for them?
> 
> Search engine tech is interesting, as there is a lot more going on in it 
> then you might expect.  The core open source component that is used in 
> most open source search engines  (the ones that are more then grep) is 
> Lucene.  Solr (http://lucene.apache.org/solr/) is a project that takes 

+1 for Lucene (though I can't speak for Solr).  I worked with it years ago
for an internationalized search experiment.  Both the Java and Python ports
seemed to function pretty well, and there's a C port which I haven't tried.

With raw Lucene, there's definitely a lot of assembly required.  It's
basically just an API.  FWIW, I found it pretty easy to integrate into a web
front-end.

> the core engine and adds some layers of more expected usability around 
> it, and is probably a reasonable place to start.  There is plenty of 
> assembly required to get what you are looking for, but at least that's a 
> starting point.
> 
>       -Sean
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