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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. poor guy by understyled · · Score: 5, Informative

    i cringe at the bandwidth demands a slashdotting can bring with it. here's google's cache of the page.

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    1. Re:poor guy by johnteslade · · Score: 5, Informative
      The site is still slashdotted. Each of his papers are on separate pages so here are the google caches of the individual papers:

      I have to write some crap at the end here so i can get past the "Your comment has too few characters per line" error message.

  2. Re:Anti-XML by phurley · · Score: 5, Informative

    I agree to a point, but if we are talking about a mixed environement where you are using Oracle, I am using DB2, our friend Bob has his data in a legacy ISAM setup and a customer wants to integrate a search system across the tree systems they are going to have to write a lot of custom glue.

    If an XML aspect of the data is available (you can still keep it all in Oracle - just provide a "view" of it in XML) from each of us - common search tools and methods can be utilized.

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