A couple of days ago, we discussed ideas of realizing a completely pluggable search app, which requires no modification of the existing apps, models and DB. This is in fact a question for Wheel 2.0
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, but in times of Mythbusters and DIY, reinventing the wheel seems to be fun, and sometimes required for understanding the basic mechanics of a matter.
For further information, read on in the wiki starting here: http://code.google.com/p/django-search-app/wiki/WikiHome
We're totally looking forward to any comments, thoughts, contributions, suggestions and links (especially like: “This is done already! Look here: …”).
UPDATE:
We created a first Prototype, that full-fills most of our wishes.
It is totally pluggable Works without any modification of existing code provides mechanisms to define ranking-rules based on models transform any third-party model to be useful in your search view without touching them define appearance of the results per model We won't publish this version, as is it just meant to evaluate our ideas. But stay tuned! [Less]