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On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:52:05 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Googling lead to a tool called Sphinx that apparently is coupled with a |
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> data base tool like mysql. It is advertised as the kind of search tool |
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> I'm after and has a perl front-end also available in portage |
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> (dev-perl/Sphinx-Search). |
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> The call it a `full text search engine', but never really say what that |
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> means. |
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It means that you can dump a lot of text "documents" into it (based on |
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html pages, database records, actual documents, etc). sphinx efficiently |
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indexes all the text in it, and then allows you to retrieve it again, |
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supporting things that are useful for searching in text such as stemming. |
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It can use MySQL but this isn't needed to use it. |
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It should be able to help you with the task you want to solve, although |
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I'm not familiar with the capabilities of the Sphinx-Search front-end/ |
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binding. |
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Kind regards, |
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Hans |
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