I disagree with Vijay that they are essentially the same. They may run on
the same technology but the products are very different. They use different
sources of metadata. They deduplicate and combine results in different
ways. They have different features and customizations available.
"Best" should be defined in the context of your user's needs and the
content you have access to.
Thank you,
Brian
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On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 4:25 AM, Chopra, Vijay <
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> Last time we looked at them, we found that both actually used the same
> underlying technology: Apache Solr (http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ )
> which is open source and, indeed, also used in various free software
> projects such as VuFind (http://vufind-org.github.io/vufind/ ) that I see
> you already use.
>
> So neither is objectively better as they both use largely the same search
> engine under the hood, so it's more a case of who's offering the better
> deal to you and what fits better with your existing services. The actual
> search results will probably be almost, if not exactly identical.
>
> Kind regards,
> Vijay Chopra
> Learning Centre Advisor
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> Tel: 023 8057 7307\7409
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