24 Jan
2008
24 Jan
'08
9:09 p.m.
Le 24 janv. 08 à 17:54, Vincent Massol a écrit :
>> On Jan 22, 2008, at 10:39 PM, Jim Dowson
wrote:
>>> Has anyone explored integrating a Google search appliance into
>>> xwiki
>>> as a search engine alternative?
>>> We're interested in exploring this option, and we would like to
>>> collaborate/share with the community.
>
>> I'm interested in the answer too.
>> Do you have any idea what would be the pros of this solution
>> compared
>> to using the XWiki Lucene plugin?
>
> 'Best of breed' speed of search, and federated search (from other
> portals) for large amounts of textual data.
Is this what you are meaning ?
http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/
Lucene is quite fast too. This looks like an
interesting use case when
you have lots of data not only in the wiki but outside of it too and
you want a single aggregated search.
I may be wrong in the case of the expensive GSA but Google public-web-
search engine updates very slowly compared to site-hosted searches
(about 1 month).
Two more comparison points:
- Google has good document-processors, e.g. for word, pdfs, ps, ...
that may be worth considering to plug into lucene search (many lucene
plugins analyze fancy document formats).
- Google cannot do an amount of the fuzzy matching that Lucene can
do, among others the usage of the metaphone or soundex analyzers.
Again, to my knowledge.
But if performance is your criterion than Lucene is a better friend I
feel.
paul