At my company we trying to decide on a new search engine. I am very impressed with what I see with Lucene and am thinking very seriously of not going with AltaVista, FAST etc...
One of things that is very important to us is sorting by an integer or by a date, which Lucene currently cannot do. So I am thinking about some options I might have here. I would welcome comments from the lucene developers on the options below: 1) We could wait for the sorting to be added to Lucene. Is there an idea of when this will be added? 2) Have my company commission a project from the Lucene team to add this functionality soon. Does the Lucene team do commissioned work? 3) Add the sorting code with guidance from the Lucene team and from a search engine expert that works with our company. 4) Re-sort the results in the application that is using Lucene. This is the least attractive because our result-sets can be very large and I think we will have performance problems. Thanks, Joel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
