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I would like to have a search engine on my site. I tried Zoom suggested by josbro79 to another member. It is very good and easy to use. I am planning to buy it since the free version supports only 50 pages. i have a site larger than 200pages. Should i go ahead and buy Zoom or is there anything better? (http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom)

Please suggest.
Thanks in advance.

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Quick context: is looking for site search for a 200+ page site and mentioned Zoom; suggested building on Lucene/Nutch. The right choice depends less on brand and more on three things: how pages are generated (static vs dynamic), how often content changes, and how much control you need over relevance (facets, synonyms, typo-tolerance). For an ecommerce site those last items—filters, relevance boosting, and fast updates—matter a lot.

Practical options and tradeoffs to consider now: a plug‑and‑play hosted search will get results fastest but costs more; try hosted SaaS like Algolia for product search or Elastic Cloud if you want managed Elasticsearch with fine control (Algolia docs, Elastic Cloud). If you prefer full control and can run a server, Apache Solr or Elasticsearch are robust, open‑source choices with extensive tuning and faceting (Apache Solr). For simple keyword search on DB-driven pages, built‑in full‑text (Postgres/MySQL) can suffice and is lowest‑ops (Postgres full text). Crawlers (Zoom/Nutch) work for mostly static pages but struggle with logged‑in views or rapidly changing catalogs — push indexing via an API is better for ecommerce.

Quick checklist before buying or building: verify the tool can index your dynamic/product pages and files, supports incremental updates, handles synonyms/stemming and facets, offers relevancy tuning and typo handling, and fits your hosting budget. Prototype with a sample dataset or a free trial and measure relevance and query latency. If you want minimal ops start with a hosted trial; if search quality directly affects sales, plan for a Solr/Elasticsearch implementation or a commercial search service you can tune.

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Hi
u can go for development of u'r own search engine using free java api Lucene
or
u can try from apache .

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Thank you very much for your feedback.
I will try your suggestions over the next few days.

thanks again:)

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