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, 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!