Hi, As discussed at the ApacheCon, we're the search experts at Apache but still most of our web sites at lucene.apache.org use a Google search box. And the Google search isn't even that powerful, as it doesn't cover our mailing lists, wikis, issue trackers, etc. Let's fix that using our own search technology!
Lucid Imagination already implemented a search at http://www.lucidimagination.com/search/, though that implementation also contains stuff from their web site. Perhaps we could ask them to set up a version that only returns stuff from apache.org. Would people be worried about the Lucid branding on search result pages? I don't think that's too much of a problem as the current search results are already Google-branded. Anyway, if someone feels this is a problem (and has the time and energy to fix it), we could also ask for an infra zone where a similar ASF-hosted search service could be set up. Or perhaps Lucid would be willing to give us an ASF-branded version of the search with just a "search results brought to you by Lucid Imagination" note attached? PS. I can think of a number of Apache projects who'd love a similar setup. BR, Jukka Zitting
