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

[Aerik Sylvan]

On 8/9/07, Charlie Hull <charlie at juggler.net> wrote:
>
> Maxim Zakharov wrote:
> > But last time I saw it, it was in C++, isn't ?
> >
> > On 8/9/07, Charlie Hull <charlie at juggler.net> wrote:
> >> Or try Xapian (www.xapian.org), which scales very well, and has
> bindings
> >> from lots of different languages.
> >>
>
> Yes, but Aerik was playing with something from Zend, which is PHP, so I
> figured that something he could access from PHP would be useful.
>
> Actually I think a colleague of mine may well have written a Xapian
> indexer for Mediawiki (at least he's done it for a dump of Wikipedia),
> I'll check.
>
> Xapian does look interesting - I was really leaning toward using a lucene
based solution simply because it would be nice to be able to share the
index, use other peoples, etc, but I'm having enough problems with clucene
(despite some generous assistance from Peter Burden) that I might go play
with Xapian too... though frankly, I wonder if a large part of my problem is
simply that I'm such a newbie at C++...

Anyway, yes, I think thinking of writing a small library of simple index
updating and and retrieval scripts and calling them from PHP with exec -
this would let me do the "heavy lifting" of manipulating the index with
C/C++ and do the main app in PHP.  I think I was a bit naive thinking I
could easily compile the clucene code however.

Best Regards,
Aerik

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