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Re: What search technologies are you using for web-based documentation (both local and on the Web)?
Subject:Re: What search technologies are you using for web-based documentation (both local and on the Web)? From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:Lois Patterson <loisrpatterson -at- gmail -dot- com>, techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:07:15 -0800
Seems like most web help runtimes, web servers, and wikis use Lucene.
Around two years ago I evaluated alternatives. At that time, a Google
Search Appliance seemed like #1 with a bullet. I think you could
accomplish the same thing by integrating with Google provided the
content is not secured by a login.
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Lois Patterson
<loisrpatterson -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> I don't want to limit the responses by specifying particular outputs or
> technologies.
>
> It's easy to find documentation systems that have somewhat poor search.
>
> What search technologies are you using for your documentation systems that
> give good to excellent results?
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