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I have a problem I would like to discuss. My company is working on a project and we have wiki (MediaWiki), a bug database (JIRA) & several other project related sites. All the sites are hosted on the same web-server and the problem is that it's very uncomfortable to search a piece of information (that may be found in any of these websites). All the sites are running from apache in linux if it matters.

I would like to know if there's an option to integrate google internally (or any other quality search engine) so it would index all of the sites into one search engine so all the employees will be able to search one search engine and find the correct reference (as we all work when we're using the internet).

Thanks in advance

Nemo
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  • Are you considering only google as a search engine? If not, you can install [Sphinx](http://sphinxsearch.com/) as a search server. – om-nom-nom Apr 30 '12 at 17:29
  • I don't consider only google. I use always google at home so I know it's great. How Sphinx's searching capabilites ? – user1366341 Apr 30 '12 at 17:40
  • generally, it is fine. It is hard to say without knowing exact context which one (Solr of Sphinx) is better, but I tend to think, that *Solr is nicer* when we talk about accuracy, while Sphinx is faster. You can look at [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1284083/choosing-a-stand-alone-full-text-search-server-sphinx-or-solr) comparison for other details like licensing and features. – om-nom-nom Apr 30 '12 at 17:52
  • There is also [elasticsearch](http://www.elasticsearch.org/) (build on top of Lucene, as far as Solr) but I'm not aware about its accuracy at all. – om-nom-nom Apr 30 '12 at 17:57

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Check out Solr

http://lucene.apache.org/solr/

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  • I forgot to say: The most important thing for me it the quality of the queries themselves in the search engine. It wouldn't need to scale to meet my demands, I just want to make sure that its query mechanism is smart such as google's (has the ability to find info from partial query, to notice typos in the query, etc..) – user1366341 Apr 30 '12 at 17:45