[Search-l] Fwd: 10 People Powered Search Engines

Charlie Hull charlie at juggler.net
Thu Aug 9 13:55:41 UTC 2007


Maxim Zakharov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Probably you need to look at DataparkSearch, http://www.dataparksearch.org/
> It written in C. But the question is how much search database you need
> to have, because DataparkSearch isn't scale well.

Or try Xapian (www.xapian.org), which scales very well, and has bindings 
from lots of different languages.

C
> 
> On 8/7/07, Aerik Sylvan <aerik at thesylvans.com> wrote:
>> No, I'm with you there too, and frankly, I'm not much of a UI guy... good to
>> know your weaknesses, I guess :-)  Thanks for the pointer to dbsight, but
>> for the time being, I think I'd rather wrestle with learning enough C++ to
>> use clucene than learn how to run a Java daemon in linux... For the record
>> (and to stray back on the topic of Wikia search a bit) I think using a C/C++
>> app to serve results is probably a a good strategy (good performance with
>> minimal resource usage) but to be honest, I'm a relative newbie to both C++
>> and Java.




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