Last night, I gave a talk at the Addons Meetup at Threadless HQ in Chicago on the new search engine powering addons.mozilla.org. I’ll recap the technical portion of the talk and give a bit more details.
First, I’d like to thank Harper and Threadless. It was a great location in the greatest city in [...]
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I wanted to find a list of Firefox addons that had smushed text in their title. E.g. FireBug or StumbleUpon. The normal porter stemming algorithm that Sphinx uses does not turn “StumbleUpon” into “stumbl upon” as it would with “Stumble Upon”. I was hoping for, and unfortunately could not find a method [...]
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