Lucene - Open Source Search Engine

• Java library module with extensible APIs

• Part of the Apache Jakarta project

• Multilingual in single-byte characters: Roman, Arabic, Cyrillic etc.

• Indexes text, HTML, XML, PDF and RTF

• Scales to millions of pages or records

• Provides fuzzy search, proximity search

• Wildcards: single and multiple characters, anywhere in the search words

• Will search for punctuation such as + or ?

• Field searches for title, author, etc., and date-range searching

• Supports most European languages

• Option to store and display full text of indexed documents

• Shows search results in relevance order

• Open CMS Integration Note

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