After considering Lucene, I built my in house search engine. Yeah, totally makes sense to write your own search engine instead. Or you could use Lucene and ha

After considering Lucene, I built my in house search engine. Yeah, totally makes sense to write your own search engine instead. Or you could use Lucene and have a tiny bit of code in front of it that tacks on "~" to query terms first and save yourself some time. Or spend a few minutes reading the Lucene docs and find out how to do what you'd like to do. I've had the misfortune of dealing with homegrown search engines...it was laughable to see all that work (requiring a bunch of heavy-duty servers, lots of development time) replaced with a Lucene index that took half a day to get up and running with much better performance+features on a tiny VPS.