Search Wars: The Open Source Front
January 13, 2019
Last year I pointed out that enterprise search and Web search were for me dead ends. There have been some howls from LinkedIn enterprise search members who want the good, old days to return.
Well, maybe enterprise search can cook up another run at off Broadway fame. To recap, if one wants search, one uses Lucene/Solr. Sure, there are options, but Google style wizards are needed to get these puppies to behave.
I learned that Toshi search aims to challenge Elasticsearch, Shay Banon’s personal Act II in the search tragedies which were packing them in in the early 2000s. Ah, how “fast” time gains its “autonomy.” Few “inquire” about the mechanisms of overpromising and then under-delivering. We could ask the oracle of “Delphis” I suppose. (Not the god, the super hyped search engine from innovators in Canada, one of the most free country in the world.
If you want to know more about Toshi, your first stop should be the Toshi github page at this link. Download the give it a whirl.
Is Elastic worried? Nope, incumbent leaders ignore challengers. Then the Harvard MBA wonks point out the flaws of this type of Henry James’s “a certain blindness.”
Stephen E Arnold, January 13, 2019
Comments
One Response to “Search Wars: The Open Source Front”
-
- Subscribe to Beyond Search
Feature archive
News archive
-
Well guess what – people are accomplishing with marketing is going to?
Let them thoroughly exactly what your site is about, why it is good, exactly why people should be a part of it.
Think today as a type of online journal.