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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. 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?

  2. 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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  3. 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.

  4. Why isn't "someone" Tim Bray by leoaugust · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I plan to conclude with a description of the next search engine, which doesn't exist yet but someone ought to start building.

    "Someone" ought start building ... I wonder why this someone isn't Tim Bray. He is one of the most well known names in XML, has experience under his belt with another Search Engine Project Antartica .....

    I just mean it in the sense that if he is having trouble getting his own ideas himself off the ground, what a challenge it will be for someone else to do so.

    Mr. Bray should get the thing going like Linus did, and call in help from the Open Source Community. If he is waiting for someone with moneybags to catch the bait, and call him on the project as a highly paid consultant, maybe the approach needs to be modified.

    Go Open Source Tim ... and get the ball rolling. You will be surprised how much help you will get ...

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  5. 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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