[Chicago-talk] search indexers

JT Smith jt at plainblack.com
Fri Jan 20 12:09:13 PST 2006


Awesome. It does make me feel better to know that someone else has written something 
similar to index a lot of content.


On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:02:45 -0600
  Ed Summers <ehs at pobox.com> wrote:
> On 1/20/06, JT Smith <jt at plainblack.com> wrote:
>> so I've decided to roll my own using the MySQL FULLTEXT
>> index feature. I've written an initial test case. It runs 9 times faster
>> for imports than Plucene and 100 times faster for searches.
> 
> Just so you don't feel alone, the BBC [1] is building a 7 million
> record index of its programs 1933-present ... and it's using MySQL's
> fulltext indexing features as the backend.
> 
> //Ed
> 
> [1] http://www.hackdiary.com/archives/000071.html
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