Ask HN: Embedded or lightweight full-text/fuzzy-text search engine database?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2076277

by micah63 • 16 years ago

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I am looking for a search engine that can search 50,000 documents on an Intranet. Very low activity. Just need it to be lightweight, but it would be awesome if it was embedded.

I need googlish full-text search features like fuzzy text search, "did you mean" and maybe autofill search suggestions based on popular queries.

Is there anything like that out there?

taylorbuley• 16 years ago

I can't find it now but I recently read a Stanford paper where they use Wikipedia relationships to do "query expansion," which seems to be along the lines of what you're looking for. I've heard neural nets called overkill but Wikipedia relationships + neural net should yield a pretty interesting product and would allow you to suggest options for queries you've never seen before.

micah632• 16 years ago

That sounds really interesting! I'd be interested in the link if you find it. I need my stuff to run behind the firewall, in the going out to wikipedia, will that compromise the privacy of the searches?

Travis• 16 years ago

Have you looked into Solr/Lucene? They're run by the apache foundation -- Lucene is the actual engine, and Solr is kind of a wrapper around it. Pretty easy to setup, will parse numerous input document formats. solr.apache.org i believe.

micah632• 16 years ago

I interested in this one, but I'm just not sure if it has features like fuzzy text search, do you know if it has all the google-like features I listed in the description?

Ask HN: Embedded or lightweight full-text/fuzzy-text search engine database?

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