Hello Will, hello Armin,

A lot of time has passed since that original post of mine.

Since then we have gone away from using the JCR search. Instead we use 
google-CSE, for a number of reasons:

- google is better at indexing. Google searches all kinds of content, including 
PDFs and other common file types, and finds good matches for everything
- google combines results - documents and web-content get indexed and scored in 
the same way
- google only searches public data - since the CSE scans from the outside, 
there is no chance of "secrets" landing in the index
- google permits more powerful queries - by using the different query filters 
and providing sitemaps with extra data we can define all kinds of very specific 
searches (eg: search for the term "food" within the path "/some/path" returning 
documents in English with the data property "important")

--> while many of these examples might also be achievable with JCR Searches you 
would have to do quite some tweaking of the indexing configuration.

In the JCR Search, we originally simply combined the 2 result-lists into one, 
using the scores as they came. The result wasn't bad, seemed to make sense.
Reading into it in some more detail after you pointed out the problem with this 
approach showed that whether this works out or not is more a matter of luck 
than anything else.
In JCR 1 it simply isn't possible to combine search results because of the 
scoring. In JCR 2.0, I have not checked if there is any difference with respect 
to this problem...

Regards from Vienna,

Richard



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Im Auftrag von Will Scheidegger (via Magnolia Forums)
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. Jänner 2013 11:40
An: Magnolia User List
Betreff: [magnolia-user] Re: Magnolia search on multiple repositories

Hm... yes, still interested in a good answer myself!

Richard, would you mind describing your step "3. Combine the results, sort by 
score." in more details?

Thanks!
-will

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