[TriLUG] Internal Search Engines/Appliances

[Phillip Rhodes]

Matt Pusateri wrote:
> All,
> 
> What are people doing for internal search engines for corporate 
> intranets?  htdig? Google search appliance?   I have to index things 
> from MediaWiki, Trac, phpBB, Wordpress, and M$ Sharepoint to name a 
> few.  Looking to see  if there is any real world experience within 
> Trilug on this.

Unfortunately the only "real world" experience I have is listening to
people at $FORMER_EMPLOYER moan about the terrible intranet search.
That said, I've heard good things about Nutch:

 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutch>

<http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/>

You may find it worth a try.


TTYL,

Phil