Question for those (soon to be) in the know:

How does this compare to (Estraier/Hyper 
Estraier/Ruby-Odeum/SimpleSearch/other 'IR' systems with  Ruby 
bindings?) on (ease of learning/ease of use/ease of 
maintenance/speed/any other noteworthy attributes)? To put it simply, 
which one should I choose?* :)

(Well, speed's pretty well covered on the home page, though I'm not sure 
how much faster Hyper Estraier is than Lucene, and not sure how much 
slower SimpleSearch is than Ferret. I only ask because it's the thing 
people in the position of questioneer are /supposed/ to do.)

Free feel to answer whatever part of that you (want/know), or just tell 
me to fork off... a thread.

*For those actually interested in answering that question, it'll be an 
intranet app that won't likely get a major amount of hits, but will 
likely have a major amount of data. Right now, I'm just looking to make 
a rough prototype in a week, but wouldn't mind picking a contender, if 
quickly-pickuppable.

(Devin/twifkak)
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