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> I'm not sure where stemming comes in (does Lucene do this?), it seems > faceted browsing could be handled by something like Carrot2. Rumor > has it Solr has faceting support somewhere, as well. At least, > according to the 9s project. http://www.nines.org/ > > -Ross. Lucene doesn't have native stemming; it does do fuzzy search, but you don't want that. (Trussssssst me, through a funky series of events I recently evaluated Lucene with fuzzy search enabled, and it was bizarre.) Lucene is used as a building block for other search engines. It does support quite a few capabilities. I have seen it used in conjunction with the Porter stemming algorithm and with spell-checkers of various flavors. But again--and probably only because I have been testing search engines for several months and am starting to get a little cabin fever--I want to clarify that I'm not piling on the fact that Kino can't do it all. As a component, it could be great, and that it's in a Perl is a biggy. I was (awkwardly) addressing my concern that some fundamental search capabilities appeared to have been labeled "creeping featureitis." I would just be careful about that kind of terminology. I doubt Eric meant anything seriously by it. I just know the long uphill battle it can be to provide quality search, and I wouldn't want someone as distinguished as Eric quoted in support of compromising the user experience. K.G. Schneider [log in to unmask]