Over the years there's been numerous attempts at improving the Magento's search features. (Solr, Lucene, etc.) In 2013, is there a preferred/dominant way of providing a catalog search in Magento that's available for community edition? What about a site wide search — something that searches content pages?
Are people just sticking with out of the box search, or is there something better?
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I work a lot with Solr and created a Extension for that here http://solrgento.com. You can search over attributes and CMS pages. I had the same idea as Ivan and implemented the whole catalog view over Solr. Its really freaking fast ;-)