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Implementing full-text search with Tridion Query

I need to implement a fullscreen website search based on SDL Tridion WCMS. Any suggestions or ideas on how to implement full-text search with Tridion Query?

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The Tridion SDL Content Delivery API is designed to search for content based on system or user metadata and / or taxonomy. Full text is not available through the search API. To implement a full-text site search on the Tridion site, it is normal to use / integrate a separate search engine, such as Google Site Search or one Lucene-based solution . Better integration typically uses a storage extension to notify the search indexer when content changes.

See How can we integrate Microsoft FAST with SDL Tridion 2011 SP1? and Expanding Content Delivery Storage in SDL Tridion 2011 for some ideas / examples.

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If your site is available for the Google bot, Google Site Search is easy.

You can also look at the application server for full-text search (for example, in the .NET / SQL environment).

If you want an enterprise search engine platform, check out the open source Solr . With Java, .Net, and a JavaScript API and a REST-based server / service, this open source option is worth a long look.

Do not go too far from the topic, but it helped me visualize when I first answered the same question: site search means three things. One is a search engine; two - search pattern / index (decide what the beast eats and feed); three, search user interface.

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