Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-15 Thread aaron . watters
On Oct 12, 2:01 am, Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's reasonable speed, but is that just to do the set intersections and return the size of the result set, or does it retrieve the actual result set? It only showed 20 results on a page. I notice that

Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-15 Thread Terry Reedy
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Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-12 Thread Paul Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/gut.py/go?FREETEXT=w (w for web) we get 6294 entries which takes about 500ms on a cold index and about 150ms on a warm index. This is on a very active shared hosting machine. That's reasonable speed, but is that just to do the set

Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-11 Thread aaron . watters
On Oct 11, 3:30 am, Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Delaney, Timothy (Tim) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As for [ http://nucular.sourceforge.net ] itself, I've only had a chance to glance at the site... Thanks for taking a look. I hope you don't mind if I disagree with a number of

Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-11 Thread Paul Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ...but it looks a little more akin to Solr than to Lucene. ... I'm not sure but I think nucular has aspects of both since it implements both the search engine itself and also provides XML and HTTP interfaces That sounds reasonable. As a test I built an index

Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-11 Thread aaron . watters
regarding http://nucular.sourceforge.net On Oct 11, 12:32 pm, Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How many items did each query return? When I refer to large result sets, I mean you often get queries that return 10k items or more (a pretty small number: typing python into google gets

Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-11 Thread Paul Rubin
Delaney, Timothy (Tim) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the case of nucular, it's a mispronunciation that has been widely ridiculed all over the world. There are people (including myself) who so associate it as an object of ridicule that it's an immediate turn-off. It gave me a chuckle, since it's

Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-10-09, Bill Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/9/07, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-10-09, Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 9, 8:46 am, Istvan Albert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ps. there is a python project named The Devil

RE: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-10 Thread Michael . Coll-Barth
From: Grant Edwards Anyway, I apologize for my attempt at humor, since it appears to have somehow offended. Why apologize? If someone doesn't like the name given to a piece of software by its author(s), screw them. If I find the software useful, I'll use it. Even if its called

Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-10 Thread George Sakkis
On Oct 10, 11:08 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why apologize? If someone doesn't like the name given to a piece of software by its author(s), screw them. If I find the software useful, I'll use it. Even if its called 'bouncingBetty'. Or 'BeautifulSoup' for that matter ;-) George --

RE: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-10 Thread Delaney, Timothy (Tim)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Grant Edwards Anyway, I apologize for my attempt at humor, since it appears to have somehow offended. Why apologize? If someone doesn't like the name given to a piece of software by its author(s), screw them. If I find the software useful, I'll use it.

Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-09 Thread Bill Hamilton
On 10/9/07, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-10-09, Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 9, 8:46 am, Istvan Albert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ps. there is a python project named The Devil Framework, I cringe every time I hear about it.Nucularis