Most of you have probably heard of the
Google Coop Custom Search Engine
http://www.google.com/coop/cse/overview
A user defined vertical search of the Google index
The obvious and simple way to implement a Google Coop style facility
in Lucene would be to add a unique id to each document in the ind
Using the Standard Analyzer the string
McDonald's
is indexed with the term
mcdonald
so it will be found by a (QueryParser parsed) query for
McDonald
or
McDonald's
but not
McDonalds
Wikipedia (who uses lucene) says on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Searching
An apostrophe is identical to