# Has anyone heard of an authenticated search engine?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-anyone-heard-of-an-authenticated-search-engine/105283>\
**Category:** Elastic Community and Ecosystem\
**Created:** [October 25, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-anyone-heard-of-an-authenticated-search-engine/105283 "2017-10-25T18:24:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![jerrac](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jerrac/32/52980_2.png) [@jerrac](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jerrac)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-anyone-heard-of-an-authenticated-search-engine/105283/1 "2017-10-25T18:24:32Z")

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Has anyone heard of, or built, a search engine that only returns results from multiple sites that the user is authorized to see?

For example, a user has access to a public site, a Drupal groups based site, and several PBWorks wiki's. Assuming the user is authenticated to the search engine so it knows who they are, when the user runs a search, they should receive results from all the various sites and wiki's, but if they are not authorized to read a wiki or Drupal group, they should not see results from those specific wiki's or groups.

Does that make sense?

I've been thinking Elasticsearch would be a good tool to use to build something like this, hence why I'm asking here. I have googled around a bit, but haven't hit on the right search terms to find anything useful yet.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-anyone-heard-of-an-authenticated-search-engine/105283/2 "2017-11-22T18:24:56Z")

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