[PLUG] Search Engines in a can

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

Last night at PLUG West Amul asked some questions about bug trackers and 
email archives and related things.  Out of that we went off on a tangent 
about search engines, especially for archiving and searching email.

We mostly talked about the Apache Foundation's Lucene, Solr and Nutch:
	http://nutch.apache.org/about.html
	http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
	http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/30/2159239	News: Lucene 
and SOLR Get Commercial Support

Personally, I'm not a Java fan, and all that web server/container stuff 
just gives me a headache.


For a pure email archive, this sounds more my speed:
http://lurker.sourceforge.net/
    Demo: http://archives.free.net.ph/splash/index.html
Description: Archive tool for mailing lists with search engine
 lurker is an archiver which can handle extremely large amounts
 of email. It is fast, intuitive, and customisable.
 .
 lurker archives your mailing lists and imports new mail.
 It includes many features like powerful fast search engine,
 chronological threading, file attachment support,
 multi-lingual support, completely customisable output etc.


There's also http://code.google.com/p/subetha/, "a modern, sophisticated 
mailing list manager. [... with] Searchable, threaded archives..."  (But 
also Java/JBoss.)


Also:
	http://swish-e.org/	Swish-e (MS Office, PDF, etc. also)
	http://www.htdig.org/	ht://Dig (web-based HTML and text only)
	http://search.mnogo.ru/	Mnogosearch


Finally, for a commercial solution, a Google Appliance (if they still 
even sell those) or a Splunk appliance would do the trick, if you want 
to spend lots of money.  I've heard mostly bad things about the Google 
box, and mostly good things about the Splunk one.  We use a lot of 
Splunk at work and I've seen some really impressive things, but I 
haven't personally worked with it, not do I really use it myself.


For whatever it's worth,
JP
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