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Attractive Open Source Search Interfaces?

Posted by timothy on from the you'll-have-this-ansi-terminal-and-like-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I work for a company that manages an online database for the political market. We add to this DB daily with updates from a variety of sources and our customers then search through this content via our Solr/Lucene search engine. My problem is, our search interface is a little, well, basic and I would love to know if there are any feature-rich open source alternatives out there. The only one I can find is Flamenco, and while that seems strong on categorisation, that seems to be about the height of it."

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  1. Why bother with open source? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Open source software is typically more complex, hard to use, hard to setup, hard to understand, poorly supported and poorly implemented than closed source software. This has been proven time and time again (Linux vs OS X/Windows7, GIMP vs Photoshop, etc).

    You would be better off going with a closed source solution such as Wrensoft Zoom.

  2. Did I just see by Hognoxious · · Score: -1, Troll

    Did I just see "attractive" and "open source" in the same sentence?

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