Tony
If you want to play in your mashup style, check out
elastic search http://www.elasticsearch.org/ and
index tank http://indextank.com/ (free version for little tests).
- Dan
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 05:53, Tony Hirst <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> *Open Educational Resources <[log in to unmask]> writes:*
>
> If GA and CSE are problematic, could Apache Lucene
> http://lucene.apache.org/ be a better option?
>
> Lucene may a good option if you have the resource to set up and manage a
> searchenigne, and, in the general case, if you're happy indexing third party
> content, managing crawlers etc.. Alternatively, if the content is on the
> public web and indexed by Google, all you need to set up and manage a Google
> CSE is a browser and an internet connection ;-)
>
> Out of interest, how much tweaking of ranking can you do in Lucene...? I
> really should have a play with it one day...
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