Earlier in the summer, we published a post titled “Building a Search Engine”. It focused on the key aspect of what a typical search engine, like Google or Yahoo, is comprised of. In this post, we’re going to look at what it takes to build a search engine, specifically for your business enterprise.

Apache Lucene is a high-performance, search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, even cross-platform. It offers a library of powerful features and we figured that it would be helpful to share our knowledge.

Search Engines use web search queries to collect information and present it to the user. They are essential for organizing the millions, sometimes billions of bytes of data and information that a business has within their possession. So, how do you go about building a search engine in the first place?