Desktop search tool using lucene

Mike MacCana mikem at cyber.com.au
Mon Jun 27 05:58:29 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 16:52 -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Marco Meyerhofer <marco_meyerhofer at freesurf.ch> wrote:
> > Today desktop search tools are killer-apps, the hype about Beagle or
> > Spotlight is really big. I think that Fedora needs a search tool to be
> > competitive.

They (meaning engineers at redhat) are discussing this. The solution
won't use Lucene, as Lucene treats all fine content as equal - ie, it
doesn't know about headings being different from body text and so on.

Mike




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