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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. Re:Interesting stuff! by stoborrobots · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Actually no... one of the interesting things is that it is far more efficient to "scan" through a stack than to pop it if you're looking for something... (Assuming you have an in-memory stack, which is easily manipulated by memory operations as well as stack ops.)

    It breaks the abstraction, but the improvement may actually be worth it sometimes...

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  2. Re:poor guy by martingunnarsson · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Google isn't asking for permission. Again, Slashdot could obey to the rules in robots.txt.

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    Martin