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Re: [PhillyOnRails] Anyone know what 37signals is using for search?
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- From: "Evan Weaver" <evan@cloudbur.st>
- To: talk@phillyonrails.org
- Subject: Re: [PhillyOnRails] Anyone know what 37signals is using for search?
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:45:38 -0400
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For what it's worth, the Campfire search is using Porter2 stemming,
which Sphinx uses. You can tell because "business" returns results for
"busy". However, it doesn't support boolean operators, which I think
rules out a default Solr install, but is possible with acts_as_sphinx.
Ultrasphinx uses extended mode exclusively which supports operators.
Dunno how Ferret responds to these situations.
Evan
the campfire search doesn't support boolean operators. That would
On 9/19/07, Colin A. Bartlett <phillyonrails@colinabartlett.com> wrote:
> Steve Eichert wrote:
> > It'd also be interesting to know what the 10 times slower option they
> > used to be using is. My guess is they moved from a database related
> > search to something built on top of some flavor of Lucene.
> Maybe they were doing the old "select * from whatevers where whatever
> like something". Which, of course, is slow as mollasses. And perhaps
> they switched to something indexed like Ferret.
>
> But it's hard to believe they would ever have been using something
> archaic like a DB search.
>
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