Re: Large search engine

2001-03-24 Thread Cedric Veilleux
Hi, You are right about this, I should have thought about it. There is just one problem: A word can occur multiple times in the same documents, so the table which gives the position of a word in a doc. must give all the positions of the word. If we keep your logic, we would have to make a tab

RE: Large search engine

2001-03-23 Thread Sander Pilon
If you want to make a LARGE (millions of documents, gigabytes of data) searchengine, you'd better know something about searchengine algorithms :) I'll give you one hint - A database is not a searchengine. A database is not meant to be a searchengine. And, until some decent text-processing/searchi

Re: Large search engine

2001-03-22 Thread René Tegel
where's the second option? about your construction: > We populate 2 tables: > one containing the documents (text and ID) > one containing all the words and the documents ID containing each word how you plan to make 1 table with words, and several (unlimited) document_ids? what you'll need is: 1