"Please Note:
  • At the specific request of Ibexa we are changing this projects name to "Exponential" or "Exponential (CMS)" effective as of August, 11th 2025.
  • This project is not associated with the original eZ Publish software or its original developer, eZ Systems or Ibexa".

Tutorials & articles written by Thomas Nunninger

Creating a Search Engine

On a big website or intranet, retrieving relevant content is key to site usability. In addition to a navigation structure based on the document hierarchy, most large sites have an internal search engine that accesses indexed content. In this article we look at the challenges involved with creating an internal search engine. This article is also an overview of the current research at eZ Systems in this area. As part of a research project, I have evaluated different relevance-based ranking concepts and have written a basic test implementation using different approaches.