Search Engine solutions

What search engine solutions are some of you all using?

We've used ht:dig but it hasn't been update for a long time.
So I
removed it from our systems.
Google-mini - can't justify the cost at the moment.

Currently I'm looking to see if Zend_Search_Lucene will
function as expected...
Has anyone tried this or the Apache Lucene version?

Thanks

Chauncey Thorn

On Sep 21, 2007, at 09:59, Chauncey Thorn wrote:

> Currently I'm looking to see if Zend_Search_Lucene will
function as  
> expected...
> Has anyone tried this or the Apache Lucene version?

Lucene is very nice, as is Solr, which you'd be able to
query from  
PHP on the front-end, if you wanted. I'm also a fan of
KinoSearch,  
but you're not running Perl on the front-end, so it probably
wouldn't  
be a great fit.

HTH,

David

Chauncey Thorn wrote:
> What search engine solutions are some of you all
using?
>
> We've used ht:dig but it hasn't been update for a long
time. So I
> removed it from our systems.
> Google-mini - can't justify the cost at the moment.
>
> Currently I'm looking to see if Zend_Search_Lucene will
function as expected...
> Has anyone tried this or the Apache Lucene version?
>
> Thanks
>
> Chauncey Thorn
>
>   
We've had good luck with Mnogo.  It supports unicode.

John

We're currently evaluating Swish-e for our Intranet and
Internet sites, but since I'm not the one doing the eval, I
cannot speak for it's effectiveness as a search engine.




-----Original Message-----
From: Chauncey Thorn [mailto:chauncey.thorngmail.com]
Sent: Fri 9/21/2007 12:59 PM
To: Bricolage Users
Subject: Search Engine solutions
 
What search engine solutions are some of you all using?

We've used ht:dig but it hasn't been update for a long time.
So I
removed it from our systems.
Google-mini - can't justify the cost at the moment.

Currently I'm looking to see if Zend_Search_Lucene will
function as expected...
Has anyone tried this or the Apache Lucene version?

Thanks

Chauncey Thorn

swish-e is also very good - I think grist.org and the new  
internationalist are using that.

Dawn


On 21-Sep-07, at 12:59 PM, Chauncey Thorn wrote:

> What search engine solutions are some of you all
using?
>
> We've used ht:dig but it hasn't been update for a long
time. So I
> removed it from our systems.
> Google-mini - can't justify the cost at the moment.
>
> Currently I'm looking to see if Zend_Search_Lucene will
function as  
> expected...
> Has anyone tried this or the Apache Lucene version?
>
> Thanks
>
> Chauncey Thorn
>

Our developer who's looking into search mentioned the
following:

=====

Lucene: I tried using Hutch under Lucene.  But diacritics
weren't handled that way I want (I want diacritics folded to
the base ASCII character before indexing or searching.  That
way a name with a diacritic (say an acute) and be searched
putting in an a or an a-acute).

Swish: There's some strange utf8/iso-8859-1 problem running
swish on RHEL3.  But it works OK on RHEL4.  


-----Original Message-----
From: Dawn Buie [mailto:dawnthetyee.ca]
Sent: Sat 9/22/2007 1:26 AM
To: userslists.bricolage.cc
Subject: Re: Search Engine solutions
 
swish-e is also very good - I think grist.org and the new  
internationalist are using that.

Dawn


On 21-Sep-07, at 12:59 PM, Chauncey Thorn wrote:

> What search engine solutions are some of you all
using?
>
> We've used ht:dig but it hasn't been update for a long
time. So I
> removed it from our systems.
> Google-mini - can't justify the cost at the moment.
>
> Currently I'm looking to see if Zend_Search_Lucene will
function as  
> expected...
> Has anyone tried this or the Apache Lucene version?
>
> Thanks
>
> Chauncey Thorn
>

Chauncey Thorn wrote:
> What search engine solutions are some of you all
using?
> 
> We've used ht:dig but it hasn't been update for a long
time. So I
> removed it from our systems.
> Google-mini - can't justify the cost at the moment.
> 
> Currently I'm looking to see if Zend_Search_Lucene will
function as expected...
> Has anyone tried this or the Apache Lucene version?

We started with Mnogosearch, it worked pretty well, just
occasional
tweaks and some occasional database cleanup.  We now have a
google-mini.
 The google appliance is just plain maintenance free, I
haven't touched
it for over a year now.

- cameron