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General

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_search

http://searchengineland.com/

Google

Search operators

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/howsearchworks/thestory/

http://www.googleguide.com/

http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/ - commandline

Google Custom Search Engine

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools

http://moz.com/google-algorithm-change

Systems

Apache Solr

Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, near real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling, and geospatial search. Solr is highly reliable, scalable and fault tolerant, providing distributed indexing, replication and load-balanced querying, automated failover and recovery, centralized configuration and more. Solr powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites. Solr is written in Java and runs as a standalone full-text search server within a servlet container such as Tomcat. Solr uses the Lucene Java search library at its core for full-text indexing and search, and has REST-like HTTP/XML and JSON APIs that make it easy to use from virtually any programming language. Solr's powerful external configuration allows it to be tailored to almost any type of application without Java coding, and it has an extensive plugin architecture when more advanced customization is required.

http://wiki.apache.org/solr/

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/

update; jetty much easier!

http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrInstall
- http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrTomcat
- http://forge.bearstech.com/trac/wiki/DebianSolrInstall

/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/solr
/etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost/solr.xml

http://www.mkyong.com/tomcat/tomcat-default-administrator-password/

Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is a flexible and powerful open source, distributed, real-time search and analytics engine. Architected from the ground up for use in distributed environments where reliability and scalability are must haves, Elasticsearch gives you the ability to move easily beyond simple full-text search. Through its robust set of APIs and query DSLs, plus clients for the most popular programming languages, Elasticsearch delivers on the near limitless promises of search technology
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch

Sphinx

Sphinx is an open source full text search server, designed from the ground up with performance, relevance (aka search quality), and integration simplicity in mind. It's written in C++ and works on Linux (RedHat, Ubuntu, etc), Windows, MacOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, and a few other systems. Sphinx lets you either batch index and search data stored in an SQL database, NoSQL storage, or just files quickly and easily — or index and search data on the fly, working with Sphinx pretty much as with a database server.

Techu exposes a RESTful API for realtime indexing and searching with the Sphinx full-text search engine. We leverage Redis, Nginx and the Python Django framework to make searching easy to handle & flexible.