[pmwiki-users] search

[Patrick R. Michaud]

A lot of people continue to ask for improvements to PmWiki's search
capabilities.  In the past I've essentially taken the position that
"PmWiki is not a search engine", and that using another search
engine package (one that is optimized for performing searches) would
be much better than me trying to build one of my own.

The pmwiki.org site is starting to become so heavily used that I
probably need to set up a search engine there, if only to help keep
the server load down.  Does anyone have any suggestions for a good, 
easy-to-install search engine package?

The two I've looked at in detail in the past include:

ht://Dig  -- I've used this several times in the past for other
   projects, but it doesn't appear to be actively maintained
   anymore, and integrating it to PmWiki would be slightly kludgey.

swish-e   -- I did a few experiments with this and concluded that
   it could be made to work, but curiously it seems to lack any
   sort of convenient "excerpting" capability.  (I could probably
   live without this.)

I also briefly looked at mnoGoSearch, but for some reason I didn't
think it was a good fit with what I'm trying to do.

Any suggestions?

Pm