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OK, I hope this is the right forum for this thread, and my apologies if it is not. I was wondering if anyone knew of a good enterprise search solution comparable to the Google Mini Appliance? I am searching through and found Nutch (with which I am reviewing now) but wanted to see if there were any other users out there that had other recommendations. Please let me know.
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Short expert summary and practical checklist for and responders: the enterprise-search landscape has evolved since this thread began. Responses from , and highlight three common routes people take: a lightweight hosted site-search, a vendor-supplied appliance, or a self-hosted engine with connectors. Choosing between them comes down less to brand and more to fit: data sources, security, scale, and the front-end experience you need.

When evaluating candidates, test these points with real data and real queries. Confirm available connectors (CMS, file shares, databases, auth/SSO). Measure indexing throughput, index size limits, and query latency. Check security: per-document ACLs and plugin support for your auth system. For UI/UX, verify autosuggest, highlighting/snippets, faceting, zero-results handling, and the API for relevance tuning (boosts, synonyms, stemming). Look for built-in analytics so you can iterate on query performance and UI changes. Also factor in operational model: cloud vs on-prem, backups, monitoring, and support/service-level guarantees.

A practical evaluation path: pick two contrasting options, run a week-long pilot that indexes a representative subset, push a set of production queries, and capture metrics and user feedback. Use those results to estimate total cost of ownership and integration effort before committing. For modern examples and implementation guidance, see Apache Solr (https://solr.apache.org) and Elastic Enterprise Search (https://www.elastic.co/enterprise-search).

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Thanks man. Found that one and a few others, just wanted to see if anyone had any recommendations/thoughts about some of these. Am leaning towards Zoom. Have a great weekend!

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Another option is

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OK, I hope this is the right forum for this thread, and my apologies if it is not. I was wondering if anyone knew of a good enterprise search solution comparable to the Google Mini Appliance? I am searching through and found Nutch (with which I am reviewing now) but wanted to see if there were any other users out there that had other recommendations. Please let me know.
Thanks!

You can download Coveo Expresso for free, depending on what you want to search it may be applicable - go to www.coveo.com/expresso to see if it would fit your needs.

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