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=== Native (Application) Search === | === Native (Application) Search === | ||
| − | Applications such as this wiki (runs on MediaWiki), and CMS systems (e.g. Drupal) obviously know their own content. So, | + | Applications such as this wiki (runs on MediaWiki), and CMS systems (e.g. Drupal) obviously know their own content. So, usually it would suffice to make use of the search facilities built in to the application. However, this doesn't always ring true -- especially when you consider that search as a service in it's own right is probably more powerful than search as a "feature" that is independently tacked on to each application in your stack. |
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| − | + | Users and Implementors of MediaWiki, see [[MediaWiki/Search]]. | |
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== General == | == General == | ||
| + | [[File:Apache Solr Front Cover.jpg|200px|right|reviewed by Greg Rundlett|link=https://books.google.com/books?id=9jByAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT24&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false]] | ||
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. | 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. | ||
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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]] [[mw: | + | To meet these needs, use a product like [[mnoGoSearch]], [[mw:Apache Solr|Apache Solr]] or [[mw:Nutch]] which you are free to install and configure to suit your requirements. |
| − | See [[wp:Category: | + | See [[wp:Category:Internet search engines|Category:Internet search engines]] for a list of search engine solutions. |
== Editors == | == Editors == | ||
