Re: Writting a "search engine" for a pgsql DB

[Charles Sprickman <spork(at)bway(dot)net>]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Madison Kelly wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd really like to come up with a more intelligent search engine that doesn't 
> take two minutes to return results. :) I know, in the end good indexes and 
> underlying hardware will be important, but a sane as possible query structure 
> helps to start with.

I'm not a programmer, so I can't comment on how good of an example this 
is, but I've been pretty happy with mnogosearch:

http://www.mnogosearch.com/

The *nix versions are free.  Looking at the db structure gave me a bit of 
an idea of what I'm guessing is the "right way" to search a huge amount of 
documents.

Charles

>  Thanks all!!
>
> Madison
>
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