Ulrich Mayring wrote:
I can only recommend Lucene, it is vastly superior to any pre-packaged search engine, because you do not depend on specific features or behavior, but can customize everything to your needs.
Assuming you have time, money, skills, etc. to do so, which is not always the case.
Skills is the key issue. It took me all of one week to write our own custom search engine and I doubt that anyone would be able to install and configure a third-party product any faster than that. I had no prior exposure to Lucene, but of course knew my way around Java.
So, I don't think time and money are factors here at all. BTW, the guy who originally wrote Lucene is now developing an OpenSource version of Google with major financial backing. So you can see that there is some serious technology behind Lucene and IMHO it's worth to learn it.
Ulrich
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