How to Index Anything (2003)

by usrbinenv on 10/22/2022, 7:42:21 PM with 8 comments

  • by metadat on 10/22/2022, 7:57:24 PM

    This is an interesting alternative compared to, say, using Elasticsearch / OpenSearch.

    One caveat appears to be index size, though:

    > The indices can get large. In our example index of HTML files, the index occupies about 11MB, about one-fourth the size of the original files indexed.

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    Meta-observation: Whoa, the accessibility wheelchair in the lower right-hand side is unlike anything I've seen offered by a website before. It's like these people really care about user comfort. Refreshing.

  • by zvr on 10/22/2022, 9:43:38 PM

    This needs a "(2003)" in the title, so that people realize how old this information is. The (last?) version of the software mentioned is archived in https://github.com/swish-e/swish-e

  • by mro_name on 10/22/2022, 10:31:51 PM

    how does is compare to e.g. xapian?