search-engine.html

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title: Search Engine
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            <li>Lucene / Solr</li>

            <li>Xapian</li>
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            <li>Microsoft FAST</li>

            <li>Exalead</li>

            <li>Autonomy IDOL</li>
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            <li>Lucene/Solr is a functionally capable and scalable search engine. Can index PDF, HTML, Microsoft Word and ODF formats, amongst others. Lucene/Solr’s strength is in its performance and scalability. It also provides features normally only found in the most expensive search engines.</li>
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            <li>Lucene provides search capability for Wikipedia. Reference<sup><a href="http://dom.as/uc/workbook2007.pdf">ref</a></sup></li>

            <li>High traffic public websites that use Solr/Lucene include AOL, whitehouse.gov, AT&T, Ticketmaster, The Guardian, Netflix, news.com, dig, NASA PDS, eBuyer.com. Other users include Goldman Sachs, Disney, Apple, Cisco, NASA NEBULA, MTV. Reference<sup><a href="http://wiki.apache.org/solr/PublicServers" title="PublicServers - Solr Wiki">ref</a></sup></li>
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