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Learning About Full-text Search

Posted by michael on from the looks-easy-but-isn't dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Tim Bray who's known for XML and has been /.'ed once or twice for that kind of stuff, actually seems to be a search geek and has been writing this endless series of essays on search technology since summer. He says he's finished now - it's like a textbook on searching."

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  1. Salute by grub · · Score: 2, Funny


    ..and has been /.'ed once or twice..

    You mean two or three times now.

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  2. web page irony by Savatte · · Score: 3, Funny

    He writes about seaching technology, but you can't easily search through his writings.

    1. Re:web page irony by Dreadlord · · Score: 5, Funny

      too bad his pages are valid XHTML documents, it would have made an excellent +5 funny comment :(

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    2. Re:web page irony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Tee hee, I get it now. It reminds me of this time that something didn't happen, but if it had happened, it would have been funny. Ha ha, that still cracks me up. Yes, most amusing.

  3. Hold on there by arvindn · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...has been writing this endless series of essays on search technology since summer. He says he's finished now...

    Finished an endless series?

    1. Re:Hold on there by MooCows · · Score: 4, Funny

      The maximum number of results have been returned.

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  4. Interesting stuff! by clifgriffin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Though, I'm unaware of how to apply this to my life. I think I'll take it and put it in the "Unaware of How to Apply This to My Life" Stack with The Simpsons and The Internet.

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    1. Re:Interesting stuff! by KoolDude · · Score: 1, Funny


      I'm unaware of how to apply this to my life. I think I'll take it and put it in the "Unaware of How to Apply This to My Life" Stack with The Simpsons and The Internet

       But what if your stack grows big and you need to search through the stack ?

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  5. Bray's theorem by KoolDude · · Score: 3, Funny


    The essay series converges to text book when time tends to infinity. Proof is left as an exercise to the reader.

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  6. This technology still exists? by Pathetic+Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Search technology. Hmmm. Wasn't that outsourced to India last month? Or was that last year? I just can't keep up with IT today.

  7. ObHutz by sharkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mr. Simpson, this is the most blatant case of fraudulent advertising since my suit against the film, ``The Never-Ending Story''.

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  8. Re:Anti-XML by anomalous+cohort · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hmmm, perhaps a visit to a dictionary is in order. Once you read the definitions for rectilinear and normalized, I'll think you'll find the sense of the post.

    This is a sound strategy any time you run into a message that makes no sense. Simply look up the definitions of the words that you don't know.

  9. Re:poor guy by davew2040 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well then, I guess slashdot would learn firsthand about the slashdot effect!