[Search-l] New launch

[Jeremie Miller]

It's all stored in hbase (http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase) via a  
wrapper called KT (http://svn.swlabs.org/kt/) that exposes a JSON  
interface to the hbase schema :)

On Jun 4, 2008, at 12:08 PM, Aerik Sylvan wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
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> 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...
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> Cool!  looks like a lot of progress in the right direction.  I love  
> the stars, and the ability to add results.
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> 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
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