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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. Sphinx Search by neoform · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sphinx Search works quite well, is very fast and can handle very large datasets.. Only down side is the indexes are not live.. http://www.sphinxsearch.com/

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    1. Re:Sphinx Search by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      In fact, Sphinx is used on Slashdot ...

      That's really not the glowing recommendation you thought it would be...

    2. Re:Sphinx Search by prestomation · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Right. Slashdot search is HORRIBLE. I've better luck finding old articles with Google

  2. KISS by Mr.+Sketch · · Score: 3, Insightful


        <input type="text" name="q" title="Enter your search terms" />
        <input type="submit" value="Search" title="Submit your search request" />
    </form>

    Anything more complex will probably aggravate your users.

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    1. Re:KISS by shish · · Score: 3, Insightful

      My point is that it works for google and google allows advanced queries very nicely

      Google also has hundreds of the world's best computer scientists working on natural language parsing techniques, and they still need a load of documentation saying "if you want to use this function, please type your query according to this specific format" (which is no better than having separate input boxes IMO; in fact for the advanced search that's exactly what they do)

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  3. How about Sphider? by pbulteel73 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I found Sphider and it fulfills my needs. -P

  4. Yahoo IBM OmniFind Product by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Free solution from Yahoo/IBM -- http://omnifind.ibm.yahoo.net/

  5. Re:Windows Live Search is free!!!! by mustafap · · Score: 3, Funny

    >I just wish there was a button labeled "Complain to Windows development about this feature and why it sucks".

    There is, it's the "Buy" button next to a Mac on the Apple website.

    Wish I had the money to burn for one of those babies

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  6. What sort of database? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Are you talking about searching web pages or a database and presenting the results as web pages? If the latter, then wht's the database?