[Search-l] New launch

[Aerik Sylvan]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:

>
> Just pinging this list to make sure everyone here is seeing the new
> launch today... lots of new features, new and much better index, etc.
>
> Getting favorable reviews so far...
> <http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/options/search-l>
>

Cool!  looks like a lot of progress in the right direction.  I love the
stars, and the ability to add results.

I'm curious about a technical aspect of it - adding a result is easy (it's
just a Lucene document add, I'd expect), but how do you handle the stars?
I'm theorizing that the stars are a weight that is applied to the search
term (and the search term is a term in a field in Lucene) - are you
operating directly on the lucene index at a low level, or applying the
weight in some kind of secondary sorting operation?  I only know  a little
about Lucene, but I'm trying to soak up more ;-)

Keep up the good work,
Aerik

-- 
http://www.wikidweb.com - the Wiki Directory of the Web
http://tagthis.info - Hosted Tagging for your website!
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.wikia.com/pipermail/search-l/attachments/20080604/ecc16f1c/attachment.html