Maybe I don't fully understand the problem but what would prevent anyone from coding the full-text search ??
For example, Jonathan (very nice app by the way) you already have word segmentation, why don't you build your own table of indexes that references for each word a list of wordles? If there is write contention, you could divide alphabetically, by languages, etc.. Julian On Apr 9, 1:15 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
