"Building Search Applications with Lucene and Nutch" is the first book to comprehensively cover both the open source search engine library Lucene and the web-search software Nutch. You'll learn how to best integrate Lucene's capabilities as a fast-indexing engine with Nutch's features as an interface to build web or desktop-based search facilities. Whether you're intent on creating a more capable search engine to power a corporate website, or you'd like to distribute a powerful solution to filter your considerable MP3 library, this book will guide you through the steps required to make information immediately available.This book tackles three core areas of interest in today's search environment: desktop clients, web search, and web crawling. You'll gain practical experience into these sorts of applications by following along with theme projects included throughout the book. So if you've ever aspired to building your own search engine akin to Google or Yahoo , by using Lucene and Nutch along with the guidance in this book, you'll be on your way to indexing millions of pages in no time.