Comments on: Adventures in Full-Text Search http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2009/06/26/searchadventures/ Doug Kaye's Weblog Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:38:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Vince Veselosky http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2009/06/26/searchadventures/comment-page-1/#comment-88288 Vince Veselosky Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:03:10 +0000 http://www.blogarithms.com/?p=1124#comment-88288 Doug, if you haven't already, you should talk to the folks at EveryZing (http://everyzing.com). You may remember their former incarnation running the now defunct PodZinger service. They have audio/video search that can't be beat. Normally they sell it dear, but perhaps with your non-profit status you could work something out with them. It's worth talking to them, I think. Doug, if you haven’t already, you should talk to the folks at EveryZing (http://everyzing.com). You may remember their former incarnation running the now defunct PodZinger service. They have audio/video search that can’t be beat. Normally they sell it dear, but perhaps with your non-profit status you could work something out with them. It’s worth talking to them, I think.

]]> By: james http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2009/06/26/searchadventures/comment-page-1/#comment-87837 james Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:11:35 +0000 http://www.blogarithms.com/?p=1124#comment-87837 (4) Create a functional index over to_tsvector(fields in table that need to be searched) for each table with text data, query the tables with a UNION (5) Create a field of type tsvector in each table that needs to be queried, populate it and then update it (with a AFTER TRIGGER) on each change, query as in (4). s/tsvector/whatever field type your DBMS uses for lexemes/g. Unless you're using MySQL, then you should probably just go with Google Search. (4) Create a functional index over to_tsvector(fields in table that need to be searched) for each table with text data, query the tables with a UNION
(5) Create a field of type tsvector in each table that needs to be queried, populate it and then update it (with a AFTER TRIGGER) on each change, query as in (4).

s/tsvector/whatever field type your DBMS uses for lexemes/g.

Unless you’re using MySQL, then you should probably just go with Google Search.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2009/06/26/searchadventures/comment-page-1/#comment-87836 Anonymous Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:29:00 +0000 http://www.blogarithms.com/?p=1124#comment-87836 A great example of the build/buy tradeoff (and for this non-techie a useful mini-lesson in search architecture). A great example of the build/buy tradeoff (and for this non-techie a useful mini-lesson in search architecture).

]]> By: robert forkel http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2009/06/26/searchadventures/comment-page-1/#comment-87825 robert forkel Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:59:03 +0000 http://www.blogarithms.com/?p=1124#comment-87825 we had the same experience with our online journals (http://www.livingreviews.org/). once your stuff is on the web in a reasonable way (i.e. RESTish, with good URLs and not too much ajax), you're done search-wise. and when the site is reasonably fast and popular, even the delay between publication of new pages and them being searchable isn't more than a day (we use sitemaps to notify the search engines). the last thing we are fighting with is frames. i guess bad design decisions do come back and bite you. we had the same experience with our online journals (http://www.livingreviews.org/). once your stuff is on the web in a reasonable way (i.e. RESTish, with good URLs and not too much ajax), you’re done search-wise. and when the site is reasonably fast and popular, even the delay between publication of new pages and them being searchable isn’t more than a day (we use sitemaps to notify the search engines). the last thing we are fighting with is frames. i guess bad design decisions do come back and bite you.

]]> By: Jon http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2009/06/26/searchadventures/comment-page-1/#comment-87804 Jon Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:17:30 +0000 http://www.blogarithms.com/?p=1124#comment-87804 Very interesting. Very interesting.

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