Yeah, I rolled my eyes after opening the article, it's a load of tosh depending on what your need is.
I have written search engines for a couple of sites that combined serve about a million uniques a year.
It's not great, but it's not terrible, and took less than a week. People search for places and names, so it's quite easy to match them.
We looked at one of the open source engines, but it was a lot of effort for not a lot of gain, and essentially adds another significant moving part to go wrong.
I have written search engines for a couple of sites that combined serve about a million uniques a year.
It's not great, but it's not terrible, and took less than a week. People search for places and names, so it's quite easy to match them.
We looked at one of the open source engines, but it was a lot of effort for not a lot of gain, and essentially adds another significant moving part to go wrong.