Searching help.ubuntu.com does not work anymore..

[Marc Kaplan]

I happen to like the Google Search.  But one of the questions was
asking about a possible alternative Search tool for a locally hosted
service (let's say in a worst case scenerio, google goes down or stop
supporting the search API for sites).  As long as we have root access,
an alternative might be SphinxSearch:

http://www.sphinxsearch.com/

When personally implementing MediaWiki, everyone hated the built-in
search, but we couldn't use Google for other reasons.  We found Sphinx
Search and it's worked out nicely so far.  Couldn't hurt for the
admins to at least look into it as a backup.

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Jon <me at jonwatson.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> <snip>
>
>> We didn't see any advantage in re-inventing the wheel here.
>>
>> Like it or not, Google has become the de facto standard for searching
>> on the web.  They're quite good at it.  And they've made tools
>> available to customize such search engines.
>>
>
> I wholeheartedly agree. Implementing Google search has got to the
> easiest way to the end and Google search delivers what many end-users
> have come to believe is *the* way to provide results. Rewriting a search
> engine would be a colossal waste of resources. I can agree with
> supporting the legacy search if it exists as an alternative to those
> users who have a strong aversion to Google, though.
>
> There are bigger fish to fry and, as you've pointed out, since
> markoresko is using a gmail.com account, the privacy complaint is a
> little hard to follow.
>
> Jon
>
>> If you have a constructive solution in mind, I'm sure Matt is quite
>> interested in hearing...
>
>
>
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