# ElasticSearch as a Seach Engine for our Intranet Site **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [December 19, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-as-a-seach-engine-for-our-intranet-site/21334 "2014-12-19T17:51:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gill\_Singh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cc9497/32.png) [@Gill\_Singh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gill_Singh)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-as-a-seach-engine-for-our-intranet-site/21334/1 "2014-12-19T17:51:29Z")
Hi, I am new here, just joined this group! We are looking for a new Search Engine for our Intranet site. Can ElasticSearch be used for Crawling, Indexing and Searching Intranet type sites? We will need to crawl/index our web pages within Intranet, documents (PDF's Word etc) plus potentially Database indexing and then provide a user interface where our internal user base can search and show results. Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/7ebfe64a-2056-4edf-afdb-763e6fba3d8b%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/7ebfe64a-2056-4edf-afdb-763e6fba3d8b%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![nik9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nik9000/32/44947_2.png) [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-as-a-seach-engine-for-our-intranet-site/21334/2 "2014-12-19T18:04:11Z")
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Gill Singh [parmvirgill12@gmail.com](mailto:parmvirgill12@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi, I am new here, just joined this group! > > We are looking for a new Search Engine for our Intranet site. Can > Elasticsearch be used for Crawling, Indexing and Searching Intranet type > sites? We will need to crawl/index our web pages within Intranet, documents > (PDF's Word etc) plus potentially Database indexing and then provide a user > interface where our internal user base can search and show results. Thanks. Elasticsearch doesn't really do any of that. Its more a building block for implementing this stuff. For instance, MediaWiki has a plugin [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch) to implement its search using Elasticsearch. I'm sure there are other examples but I happen to work on the MediaWiki one so I have the link on hand. Nik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAPmjWd2vJCvANHi1XnvCswepCU8aVY-YotWofMM%2B0Qf2%2BcWFeg%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAPmjWd2vJCvANHi1XnvCswepCU8aVY-YotWofMM%2B0Qf2%2BcWFeg%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Gill\_Singh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cc9497/32.png) [@Gill\_Singh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gill_Singh)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-as-a-seach-engine-for-our-intranet-site/21334/3 "2014-12-19T19:33:44Z")
Ok, thanks. So I guess it can't crawl or index but can serve as a Search tool maybe through Plugin. Is there any combination of tools or any other Open Source Search Engine that can serve the need? Thanks. On Friday, December 19, 2014 1:04:44 PM UTC-5, Nikolas Everett wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Gill Singh \<[parmvi...@gmail.com](mailto:parmvi...@gmail.com) > \\> wrote: > > > Hi, I am new here, just joined this group! > > > > We are looking for a new Search Engine for our Intranet site. Can > > Elasticsearch be used for Crawling, Indexing and Searching Intranet type > > sites? We will need to crawl/index our web pages within Intranet, documents > > (PDF's Word etc) plus potentially Database indexing and then provide a user > > interface where our internal user base can search and show results. Thanks. > > Elasticsearch doesn't really do any of that. Its more a building block > for implementing this stuff. For instance, MediaWiki has a plugin > [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch) to implement its > search using Elasticsearch. I'm sure there are other examples but I happen > to work on the MediaWiki one so I have the link on hand. > > Nik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/30892510-5c7b-4470-9f01-e88740e31e49%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/30892510-5c7b-4470-9f01-e88740e31e49%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 12:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-as-a-seach-engine-for-our-intranet-site/21334/4 "2017-07-06T00:42:38Z")