Thanks for your frank analysis.
William Pierce-3 wrote: > > I have used solr extensively for our sites (and for the clients I work > with). I think it is great! If you do an item-by-item feature list > comparison, I think you will find that solr stacks up quite well. And > the > price, of course, cannot be beat! > > However, there are a few intangibles that make me recommend (somewhat > heretically) the google solution: > > First: No one got fired for recommending Google :-) > > Second and more important: In my experience getting search done is about > 95% tuning and tweaking and semantic understanding. Only 5% or so is the > actual part of getting your intended feature list working. (The exact > numbers may vary and you may debate it but search is largely a semantic > problem, and those who excel at semantic analysis and can map that to the > problem domain quickly and efficiently will win.) I think Google excels > at > these intangibles in ways that no one has been able to match. > > Let me give you an example from my own personal experience. We submit > data feed of products from my clients to various shopping engines: > Froogle > (from Google), shopping.com, Yahoo Shopping, etc etc. Each week we get > sales reports. The differences between google and others is breathtaking: > where the others generate may be a few hundred dollars in sales, Froogle > consistently outperforms them by a FACTOR (yes, that's right) of 10 or > more. > And neither shopping.com (owned by ebay) nor Yahoo are engineering > slouches > by any means! > > The downsides of Google: a) too much of your client's data is at google > (adwords, product feeds, and now search patterns of their visitors). b) > cost. > > Cheers, > > - Bill > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "mrbelvedr" <tmil...@ktait.com> > Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 2:30 AM > To: <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> > Subject: Google Commerce Search > >> >> Our customer is a Fortune 5 big time company. They have millions of >> vendors/products they work with daily. They have budget for whatever we >> recommend but we like to use open source if it is a great alternative to >> Google Search Appliance or Google Commerce Search. >> >> Google has recently introduced "Google Commerce Search" which allows >> ecommerce merchants to have their products indexed by Google and shoppers >> may search for products easily. >> >> Here is the URL of their new offering: >> >> http://www.google.com/commercesearch/#utm_source=en-et-na-us-merchants&utm_medium=et&utm_campaign=merchants >> >> Obviously this is a great solution. It offers all the great things like >> spell checking, product synonyms, etc. Is Solr able to do these >> features: >> >> * Index our MS Sql Server 2008 product table >> >> * Spell check for product brand names - user enters brand "sharpee" and >> the >> search engine will reply "Did you mean 'Sharpie'? " >> >> * We have 2 million products stored in our MS Sql Server 2008, will Solr >> handle that many products and give fast search results? >> >> Please advise if Solr will work as well as Google product? >> >> Thx! >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://old.nabble.com/Google-Commerce-Search-tp27197509p27197509.html >> Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Google-Commerce-Search-tp27197509p27204236.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
