Your own search engine (based on Apache Solr open-source enterprise-search)
From the webpage:
Tools for easier searching with free software on your own server
- search in many documents, images and files
- full text search with powerful search operators
- in many different formats (text, word, openoffice, PDF, sheets, csv, doc, images, jpg, video and many more)
- get a overview by explorative search and comfortable and powerful navigation with faceted search (easy to use interactive filters)
- analyze documents (preview, extracted text, wordlists and visualizations with wordclouds and trend charts)
- structure your research, investigation, navigation, metadata or notes (semantic wiki for tagging documents, annotations and structured notes)
- OCR: automatic text recognition for images and graphical content or scans inside PDF, i.e. for scanned or photographed documents
Do you think this would be a way to pull back the curtain on search a bit? To show people that even results like we see from Google require more than casual effort?
I ask because Jeni Tennison tweeted earlier today:
#TDC14 @emckean “search is the hammer that makes us think everything is a nail that can be searched for”
Is a common misunderstanding of search making “improved” finding methods a difficult sell?
Not that I have a lot of faith or interest in educating potential purchasers. Finding a way to use the misunderstanding seems like a better marketing strategy to me.
Suggestions?