New Search Engine?
G'day All,
There has been an ongoing need for the Debian website to be
searchable. Someone emailled the webmasters and said why not look
at udmsearch (http://mysearch.udm.net/ ) so I did.
It's quite an interesting model, what they've done, here is some
evil ascii art about it
website --> indexer --> postgresql [indexing the site]
search page (php) <-- postgresql [searching the site]
You can have most of these components on different machines if you
like. The indexer would be run once a day (say) but uses HTTP IMS
queries to check if it needs to update that page. The search page
is tiny and is just php3 talking postgresql.
It looks like it will do the job, it also speaks different languages
though I'm not sure how it does it. I'd like to run it on the
website in some sort of test mode first.
If we do use it I believe we will get some help from the udmsearch
people. Not sure of course but they seem approachable.
What machines can I run it on? I've packaged the program up but still
not released it yet. It will be soon. Any comments?
- Craig
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