Attractive Open Source Search Interfaces?

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @08:22AM 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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Sphinx Search by neoform · 2010-01-13 08:27 · 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 · 2010-01-13 08:49 · 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 · 2010-01-13 09:14 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Right. Slashdot search is HORRIBLE. I've better luck finding old articles with Google