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If you need people to navigate through the information you provide and it is more than a couple of pages of links, you need search engine. If your stuff is gen
by arafalov 13y ago
If you need people to navigate through the information you provide and it is more than a couple of pages of links, you need search engine.
If your stuff is generic text then Google will find it for you. However, if you have categories, unusual languages, business logic, geographic locations and other non-pure-text content, custom search engines like ElasticSearch, Solr, etc will give your customers much better results than generic Google search.
As an example, do a search at LinkedIn and see all those categories and limits popping up on the left. That's what you can get from the search engines, but not from Google.
- collyw 13y agoThat's a really nice explanation. Now if someone could come up with a site with explanations like this (including when it is overkill compared to a basic alternative), that would be really useful. The problem is when you go to the sites homepages, they will tell you how you can do almost everything with the given technology.