User blog comment:KyleH/Lucene Search launching soon/@comment-131.111.60.124-20091102132038

Hello guys, I'm not sure how is wikia internally organized and why mwsearch+lucene-search cannot be deployed out of the box, but I think you will find it easier to adapt these existing extensions than to re-invent the wheel. Making a decent search engine from open-source components is surprisingly difficult as I'm sure you'll soon find out .... so is reinventing did you mean if you want it to do anything better than single-word spellchecking that will give rather disappointing results for most queries (e.g. compare with did you mean of sphinxsearch extension or built-in did you mean in lucene)..

rainman