is alfresco the right tool for search?

Question

I'm in a training in a company, they have given me a project of choosing a search engine that will help all the employees find their documents or any information they need.

This search engine should index and allow search in:

• The company's Intranet(wiki...)
• The Internet
• SVN Repository
• and most importantly the disk shared on the network

After a long search, I found that Alfresco has a functionnality of a search engine but not only it also offers documents management, records management and so on. I found that alfresco uses Solr for the search.

My question is : Is Alfresco the right tool for search ?

Answer 1

I think you question is too specific. We could just answer: Yes or No.

When abstracting the question to

• What tools are out there for an Intranet search engine across a diverse toolset?
• or just googling for "intranet search open source"

You will find much more.

• Solr + Nutch is an option
• probably you will also require Apache ManifoldCF
• if you want those wrapped up, you maybe better of with OpenESP