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Ask HN: What do you use for search on your app/site?
I've been hacking with Lucene implementing some well known algorithms for a class and it's a pretty good start. But, have been wondering what others out there are using for your everyday crawling and search?
I want to explore more into distributed crawlers and other neat search things as well. Specifically, I know Cloudera has some Hadoop VM's, but any other suggestions would be great?
- pedalpete 17y agoAre you looking for a specific solution for your site? or just looking to learn more about search algorithms, etc. If it is the later, you can check out some natural language processing tools like ling pipe.
- samratjp 17y agoA combination of both. Been learning some algorithms in school, but want to find some good tools to apply it for an app I spec'ing out. Thanks for ling pipe, btw.
- andyjdavis 17y agoAssuming you just want search for your users and you're not concerned about how it works Google may well do the job well enough. As long as everything you want to be searchable is public (not password protected) it works pretty well and only takes a few minutes to set up and embed in your site/app. imo, go down this route if search isn't a core concern. Better to spend your time on whatever is core rather than tweaking with your search if that is peripheral.