On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, James A. Treacy wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Given that from your description swish++ sounds like a general purpose > > indexer, which has been set up to index 'natural language' is it the best > > one > > for our purposes? > > > Once I removed a few conditions for removing words from indexing that weren't > appropriate for us, the system works quite well.
Excellent. In that case, my objection has no substance. > The index file for the Package web pages alone is about 6.5M and indexes > over 8000 files, I don't think that a simplistic search system will work > very well on something this large and this popular (swish++ is very fast). > Of course, this pales in comparison to what I have planned next. If I can > work out a few details, I may use swish++ for searching on the mailing > list archives (~1GB and > 160k files). Of course, that *is* the kind of thing swish++ is designed for, so I can hardly criticise that. Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
