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Slow reply, but this very site uses PostgreSQL and the built-in search engine. It's the same search engine that powers Wikipedia.
The only difficult thing in adding search is structuring the search priorities and ensuring that results only contain things you are allowed to view (permissions filtered).
It's basically trivial to add search to a site if the database is PostgreSQL.
Velocio
Web developers; have you made a reasonably complicated website (e.g. CRM, ERP, SCM, etc), and successfully implemented a search function?
The last two projects I've been on, search has been a bit of an after-thought. For the developer the code tends to be an unmaintainable and organic mess, and for the end user, the results are poor and often very slow to return.
Has anyone had success/experience with Lucene or similar?