[TriLUG] Internal Search Engines/Appliances

[Tim Jowers]

trijug has a presentation on lucerne in a few months. its the actual search
engine in numerous commercial products and it also open source. Also often
used to drive searching into docmgt systems.

TimJowers


On 9/14/07, OlsonE at aosa.army.mil <OlsonE at aosa.army.mil> wrote:
>
> IMHO,
>
> Don't waste your time on the enterprise-level box. There are lot of
> issues we're having with it.
>
> 1) The open source connectors absolutely suck.
> 2) All the open source connectors are apparently built into the 5.0
> release of the GSA code (coming out in October).
> 3) You're going to need to know kerberos authentication like the back of
> your hand if you're considering indexing a clustered file system.
> 4) Indexing files (SMB/CIFS) returns all results as the user you
> specified to have access to crawl the data instead of users
> authenticating (although -- its rumored that web-enabled file shares
> work fine).
>
> I'd be glad to have a phone conference with you sometime if you
> want.....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Kevin J.
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 4:44 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Internal Search Engines/Appliances
>
> We use the latest gen Google Mini, but it won't suit your needs if
> you're searching databases. It's also reasonably pricey at $3k/100k
> Documents. You can spend over $30k for the Enterprise-level Google One
> appliance or look at something like Thunderstone which uses Texis
> (http://www.thunderstone.com/texis/site/pages). You could download
> Webinator from that site and load it up on a server to see if it suits
> your needs.
>
> I looked for open source search engines a while back but didn't find one
> that seemed to have what we needed. Nutch definitely seems to be the
> best option, but I haven't tried it.
>
> Kevin
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Matt Pusateri <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com>
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 3:43:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Internal Search Engines/Appliances
>
> I'm in the beginning stages of looking at what our options are for a
> corporate  Intranet search engine.  Ideally I would want to index all
> our internal webservers and or the databases within them, plus our
> SMB/CIFS.  I'm not sure I want to index mail at this point.
>
> Matt
>
> OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
> > I have quite a bit of experience with the Google Search Appliance and
> > SharePoint 2003 and 2007. What exactly is your scope for items indexed
>
> > (SMB/CIFS/DBs/Mail?).
> >
> > Depending on what you're wanting to do ...I'd be glad to provide you
> > with some feedback.
> >
> > r/s
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> > Behalf Of Matt Pusateri
> > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 3:18 PM
> > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> > Subject: [TriLUG] Internal Search Engines/Appliances
> >
> > All,
> >
> > What are people doing for internal search engines for corporate
> > intranets?  htdig? Google search appliance?   I have to index things
> > from MediaWiki, Trac, phpBB, Wordpress, and M$ Sharepoint to name a
> few.
> > Looking to see  if there is any real world experience within Trilug on
>
> > this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Matt P.
> >
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