Re: [xwiki-devs] Google appliance integration?
Vincent,
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.
On Jan 23, 2008, at 3:34 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Vincent,
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.
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. -Vincent
On Jan 24, 2008, at 5:54 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
On Jan 23, 2008, at 3:34 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Vincent,
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.
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.
Actually you can do that with Lucene too... So a valid use case is simply if you want to use google search appliance instead of Lucene I guess. I don't know them well enough to know the pros and cons of each though. -Vincent
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
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