Re: Hypothetical design question regarding keyword searching

2007-07-19 Thread Peter Bradley

Ysgrifennodd Scott Haneda:

I have been looking at stock photo sites lately, started wondering how they
are doing their keyword searched.  Given a potential for millions of images,
each with x keywords, I have come up with two approaches...

  

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Is this the sort of thing you're looking for:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_index

It's the sort of structure used in library software.


Peter

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Re: Hypothetical design question regarding keyword searching

2007-07-19 Thread Mark Papadakis

Greetings,

Buy 'Building Scalable Web Sites'
[http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/pr/1582], authored by the chief
architect of Flickr. Among other interesting topics, he describes the
system they use for full-text search. Its pretty simple, though this
is just one of the ways you can solve this problem.

Good luck,
Mark

On 7/19/07, Peter Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Ysgrifennodd Scott Haneda:
 I have been looking at stock photo sites lately, started wondering how they
 are doing their keyword searched.  Given a potential for millions of images,
 each with x keywords, I have come up with two approaches...


snip /

Is this the sort of thing you're looking for:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_index

It's the sort of structure used in library software.



Peter

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