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=== Native (Application) Search ===
Applications such as this wiki (runs on 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 usually it would suffice to make use of the direct search facilities built in to the application. # [[mw:Search]] helps However, this doesn't always ring true -- especially when you learn and understand the consider that search as a service in it's own right is probably more powerful than search capabilities of MediaWiki# Note as a "feature" that the simplest enhancement you can make to a small-scale installation is independently tacked on to tweak the MySQL stopwords and word-length. # The built-in search capability of MediaWiki can be insufficient each application in some waysyour stack. Like the MediaWiki project, '''this site uses [[Elasticsearch]] as the underlying search engine'''.
== General ==
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Google offers a service called the [http://www.google.com/coop/cse/ Google Custom Search Engine]. The Google CSE is much like the 'normal' Google, but is configured to include only domains that you want. Additionally, the domains can be grouped into 'realms' that can be used to assist the user to find content according to functional area.
# 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]] , [[mw:Apache_SolrApache Solr|Apache Solr]] or [[mw:Nutch]] which you are free to install and configure to suit your requirements.
See [[wp:Category:Internet_search_enginesInternet search engines|Category:Internet search engines]] for a list of search engine solutions.
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