BTW: Do you think you can share reasons why your clients are switching from GSA? I am very interested in their experience.
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Lukas Vlcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I posted related question into to Nutch-user yesterday. Here is the post: > Crawling > MOSS 2007 content using Nutch via GSA > connector<http://www.nabble.com/Crawling-MOSS-2007-content-using-Nutch-via-GSA-connector-td16874191.html> > > My specific situation if as folows: > We are deploying MOSS 2007 which includes its own search server. However, > we found that the search is lacking in some areas and solution requires > additional expenses on HW or SW. Thus we are evaluating alternatives. GSA is > one of them. But after I saw a presentation from technical guys on GSA I > thought myself that Nutch could do the same (or even better in terms of term > boosting for example :-). > GSA is able to use connectors for external datasources and for Share Point > there is sharepoint connector which is written in Java and is Apache > licenced. This connector can crawl document links out of MOSS 2007 and push > them into GSA which is then responsible for crawling. I wonder if I am able > to use sharepoint connector to get the list of URLs which I can then crawl > and index by Nutch. Is there any chance that using Solr make sanse in such > scenario? Is Solr more convenient for such job? > > I have no experience with Solr. I think I just understand basic concept: > Solr is a search server which can accept document in XML via HTTP. So I > don't see a match with my use case because I would have to download all > those documents from MOSS on my own and convert them into XML prior to > sending to Solr. Am I correct? > > Regards, > Lukas > > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Otis Gospodnetic < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ask me in about a month. I will likely be converting one *very* large and >> well-known organization from the expensive GSA to Solr.... if that's what >> you are asking about. >> >> Otis >> -- >> Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch >> >> >> ----- Original Message ---- >> > From: Jon Baer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >> > Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:03:19 PM >> > Subject: GSA <-> Solr >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > Going to try to persuade my employer to switch away some functions, >> > maybe all from the GSA black box to Solr and was trying to find some >> > (any?) case studies where this was done ... >> > >> > Also what is the similar function to a "KeyMatch" in Solr? Is it >> > elevate.xml? >> > >> > BTW, have been testing the DataImportHandler w/ MultiCore and it works >> > very nicely. >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >> > - Jon >> >> > > > -- > http://blog.lukas-vlcek.com/ -- http://blog.lukas-vlcek.com/
