February 2015
Beginner to intermediate
456 pages
10h 3m
English
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Chapter 25
Search Engines in the Enterprise
In This Chapter
Finding unstructured data
Providing a user-friendly search experience
Providing search engine functionality for your local computer files is easy, and the same is true for adding basic text search to a web shop front end.
Where things start to get really complex is when you try and provide a single search application over multiple sources of information. Not only are the data formats different but also the individual systems are different.
Some data must have text snippets in search results; others need image previews. Each data source displays its own set of facets about its data. Some of these facets (or search fields) may be similar across different systems. The security access rules are also different within each system, requiring a central concept of identity and permissions to map effectively in a search application.
This is why enterprise search — that is, searching across a large enterprise’s information stores — is a difficult problem to solve. However, you can mitigate this complexity in a number of ways.
In this chapter I discuss the unique issues of applying search across a large Enterprise, and making such a complex system accessible to end users.
Searching the Enterprise
Web search engines have long had ...
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