Comments on: AMO Search: Powered by Sphinx http://spindrop.us/2009/09/30/amo-search-powered-by-sphinx/ look at all this code you don't have to write Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:27:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dave Dash http://spindrop.us/2009/09/30/amo-search-powered-by-sphinx/comment-page-1/#comment-320329 Dave Dash Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:31:09 +0000 http://spindrop.us/?p=319#comment-320329 <p>Janneaa,</p> <p>Lucene/Solr are also valid options, but I found that Sphinx was easier to use and it seemed very fast.</p> <p>Lucene is nice because you can insert documents without a full reindex, but reindexing isn't that terrible for small data sets, plus Sphinx allows merging multiple indexes.</p> <p>-d</p> Janneaa,

Lucene/Solr are also valid options, but I found that Sphinx was easier to use and it seemed very fast.

Lucene is nice because you can insert documents without a full reindex, but reindexing isn’t that terrible for small data sets, plus Sphinx allows merging multiple indexes.

-d

]]> By: Lindsay http://spindrop.us/2009/09/30/amo-search-powered-by-sphinx/comment-page-1/#comment-316792 Lindsay Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:47:01 +0000 http://spindrop.us/?p=319#comment-316792 <p>Wow. I use firefox because of the addons it has. IE has nothing to compare to it. I did not realize how much went into the little box popping up in the corner saying I had updates. Thank you for your work.</p> Wow. I use firefox because of the addons it has. IE has nothing to compare to it. I did not realize how much went into the little box popping up in the corner saying I had updates. Thank you for your work.

]]> By: Janneaa http://spindrop.us/2009/09/30/amo-search-powered-by-sphinx/comment-page-1/#comment-311637 Janneaa Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:34:22 +0000 http://spindrop.us/?p=319#comment-311637 <p>Thanks for this article. I'm going to need to implement a complex search for a large website soon so it's good to know how other people have managed it.</p> <p>Did you look into Lucene/Solr? How do you think it compares to Sphinx?</p> Thanks for this article. I’m going to need to implement a complex search for a large website soon so it’s good to know how other people have managed it.

Did you look into Lucene/Solr? How do you think it compares to Sphinx?

]]> By: Add-on development just got easier « Mozilla Add-ons Blog http://spindrop.us/2009/09/30/amo-search-powered-by-sphinx/comment-page-1/#comment-311582 Add-on development just got easier « Mozilla Add-ons Blog Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:56:13 +0000 http://spindrop.us/?p=319#comment-311582 <p>[...] As part of this release, we’ve also re-worked our AMO search engine from scratch to provide much more accurate results. This is a huge and much anticipated improvement, and will be covered in detail in a separate blog post. [...]</p> [...] As part of this release, we’ve also re-worked our AMO search engine from scratch to provide much more accurate results. This is a huge and much anticipated improvement, and will be covered in detail in a separate blog post. [...]

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