Hi, thanks for inputs so far... however, let's put it this way:
When you need to search for something Lucene or Solr related, which one do you use: - generic Google - go to a particular mail list web site and search from here (if there is any search form at all) - go to LucidImagination.com and use its search capability Regards, Lukas On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Andrew Clegg <andrew.cl...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > Lukáš Vlček wrote: > > > > I am looking for good arguments to justify implementation a search for > > sites > > which are available on the public internet. There are many sites in > > "powered > > by Solr" section which are indexed by Google and other search engines but > > still they decided to invest resources into building and maintenance of > > their own search functionality and not to go with [user_query site: > > my_site.com] google search. Why? > > > > You're assuming that Solr is just used in these cases to index discrete web > pages which Google etc. would be able to access via following navigational > links. > > I would imagine that in a lot of cases, Solr is used to index database > entities which are used to build [parts of] pages dynamically, and which > might be viewable in different forms in various different pages. > > Plus, with stored fields, you have the option of actually driving a website > off Solr instead of directly off a database, which might make sense from a > speed perspective in some cases. > > And further, going back to page-only indexing -- you have no guarantee when > Google will decide to recrawl your site, so there may be a delay before > changes show up in their index. With an in-house search engine you can > reindex as often as you like. > > Andrew. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Arguments-for-Solr-implementation-at-public-web-site-tp26333987p26334734.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
