I concur, it certainly cut out most blogging/ wiki type uses... Which of course represents a major segment and class of web apps, One would think that the king of search could make this issue go away...
On Apr 8, 11:15 am, Jonathan Feinberg <e.e.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > Long ago I attracted a flame-fest when I expressed my opinion that > adding support for other programming languages should be given less > priority than fixing bugs and adding infrastructural features. Here we > are, months later, and the big announcements are > > 1) Java (my God, why?) > > and > > 2) Cron jobs (...but I could already write cron jobs to hit a URL) > > In the meantime, full-text search is not even on the roadmap. > > I'm torn. As the creator of Wordle, I'm truly grateful to Google and > the GAE team for the use of an automatically-scaling app > infrastructure. It has been a pleasure to use. On the other hand, the > lack of search has been a huge problem for Wordle users, and I've got > no good options. > > I acknowledge that search is my pet issue; I don't claim to represent > a community or interest group with these comments. Then again, I can't > think of a CRUD-style app that doesn't require or benefit from text > search. So, while I'd consider using GAE in the future for some > stateless utility micro-site, or maybe a static site, I won't use it > again for anything with user-created data. While I've begun to regret > having used it for Wordle, I admit that it's my own fault for not > having thought through the implications of having no full-text search > available. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
