I used this extensively during a grad research project almost 6-8 years ago, and for anyone wondering about this, here was what I found: 1. Easy to set up / in

I used this extensively during a grad research project almost 6-8 years ago, and for anyone wondering about this, here was what I found: 1. Easy to set up / install 2. Command line tool - so easy to use in scripts / automation 3. Has plugins that let you index almost any file type - PDF, docs, etc. 4. If you want to index an unsupported type (say, index images by file name), you write a plugin yourself. Which wasn't too hard, IIRC. For anyone asking about comparison with Lucene, etc, this is my take on it - Swish-e is really more a search tool that lets you get up and running with searches fairly easily, without too much overhead. I suspect that it might fall apart for more sophisticated search functionality - the type that Lucene really shines at.