When you have to build a web application, you are often asked to add search. The magnifying glass is something that we now add to wireframes without even knowing what we are going to search.

The search has become an important feature and we’ve seen a big increase in the popularity of tools like elasticsearch and SOLR which are both based on lucene. They are great tools but before going down the road of Weapons of Mass Destruction Search, maybe what you need is something a bit lighter which is simply good enough!

source: L