Minion: possible research alternative to Lucene
I am excited to learn from The Search Guy about the recently released research-oriented full-text engine from Sun Labs called ' Minion '. Minion the Open Source Search: One of the secret weapons underlying the Search Inside the Music project and Project Aura is a high quality search engine called Minion. Minion handles everything that has to do with Text for these projects. In addition to traditional search, we use Minion for document similarity (the core technique used for Tagomendations), item clustering, sense disambiguation, classification and autotagging. Minion is a research-oriented search engine - meaning that it is designed to allow for all sorts of variations. It is ultra-configurable and has a simple API. The big news is that the process to open source the Minion engine is underway. Steve Green (aka the search guy) has created a Minion project on Java.net - and soon, the Minion search engine will be available for all. " Right now there is limited real info on