On Jan 24, 2008, at 5:54 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2008, at 3:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Vincent, >> >>> On Jan 22, 2008, at 10:39 PM, Jim Dowson wrote: >>>> Has anyone explored integrating a Google search appliance into >>>> xwiki >> >>>> as a search engine alternative? >>>> >>>> We're interested in exploring this option, and we would like to >>>> collaborate/share with the community. >> >>> I'm interested in the answer too. >>> >>> Do you have any idea what would be the pros of this solution >>> compared >> >>> to using the XWiki Lucene plugin? >> >> 'Best of breed' speed of search, and federated search (from other >> portals) for large amounts of textual data. > > Lucene is quite fast too. This looks like an interesting use case > when you have lots of data not only in the wiki but outside of it > too and you want a single aggregated search.
Actually you can do that with Lucene too... So a valid use case is simply if you want to use google search appliance instead of Lucene I guess. I don't know them well enough to know the pros and cons of each though. -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
