How to evaluate hosted full text search solutions?

Question

What are the options when it comes to SaaS/hosted full text search? How should I evaluate the different options available?

I\'m looking for something that uses Lucen

Answer 1

Indextank is a hosted real-time full text search solution. It's pretty simple to set up (you can get an index running in a couple of minutes) and it's very powerfull (Reddit runs over IndexTank). It provides Java, Python, Ruby and Php clients as well as a Rest API specification. There's an awesome support service (including live chat). You should give it a try.