Hatrack River Forum: What's the best search engine to use on an intranet?

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Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :

I'm creating an intranet that needs to be searched, and this means I can't use the Google search this site function like Hatrack has. I'm not sure what else to use - is there an industry standard for this? Is there a best one?

I know it's a big topic, so if someone wants to point me a in direction that I can read all about it, that'd be fabulous too. [Smile]

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

What server will the site be hosted on - Apache, IIS, etc.?

Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :

Buy a google search appliance.

http://www.google.com/enterprise/

Or, if the intranet is well mapped and/or backed by a few well understood repositories, create a custom solution using Lucene (a library for indexing and doing searches on indexes).