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Applications such as this wiki (mediawiki), and CMS systems (e.g. Drupal) obviously know their own content. So, if you are looking for something and want the best results for those applications, you should make use of the direct search facilities in the application. Note that this wiki and the CMS systems also provide an 'OpenSearch' implementation that lets you use your browser's search toolbar to directly search these applications. | Applications such as this wiki (mediawiki), and CMS systems (e.g. Drupal) obviously know their own content. So, if you are looking for something and want the best results for those applications, you should make use of the direct search facilities in the application. Note that this wiki and the CMS systems also provide an 'OpenSearch' implementation that lets you use your browser's search toolbar to directly search these applications. | ||
# [[mw:Search]] helps you learn and understand the search capabilities of this system | |||
# [[ | # The Lucene backend used on Wikipedia [[mw:Extension:Lucene-search]] can be used for large-scale installations where the built-in search is not sufficient. Note that the simplest enhancement you can make to a small-scale installation is to tweak the MySQL stopwords and word-length. | ||
== General == | == General == | ||
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# The index will not allow custom data formats or indexes that you create... it's Google's algorithms for better or for worse. | # The index will not allow custom data formats or indexes that you create... it's Google's algorithms for better or for worse. | ||
To meet these needs, use a product like [[mnoGoSearch]] which you are free to install and configure to suit your requirements. | To meet these needs, use a product like [[mnoGoSearch]] [[mw:Apache_Solr]] or [[mw:Nutch]] which you are free to install and configure to suit your requirements. | ||
See [[wp:Category:Internet_search_engines]] for a list of search engine solutions. | See [[wp:Category:Internet_search_engines]] for a list of search engine solutions. | ||
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=== Opensearch Implementation example === | === Opensearch Implementation example === | ||
Opensearch is implemented in the | Opensearch is implemented in the [[MediaWiki]] system. | ||
Viewing source on a page, you will see the following element: | Viewing source on a page, you will see the following element: | ||