I'm in the process of developing a vertical price comparison website with a partner.
He is doing all the front- and back-end coding – my contribution is the idea, graphic design, interface design, marketing, etc. The site is focused on something which has been my passion for many years, whereas he is very new to it. So whilst he appears to be doing a great job, he is new to both Sphinx and the category itself, which means he has a pretty steep learning curve to negotiate. And he's not particularly good at explaining to me what he is doing in non- technical language which I can understand. The search results the site returns are pretty good most of the time. But I certainly recognise instances where they could be better. In those instances I would be much better at identifying why the results weren't optimal, and be able to suggest strategies we could employ to improve them, if I had a reasonable high-level understanding of the logic behind search engines, and that of Sphinx in particular. Whilst I am not a coder, I have a mind that works a lot like those of the coders I know (I have physics and law degrees). So I'm not afraid of relatively difficult conceptual stuff, but I don't have sufficient knowledge of computer languages and the terminology they employ to make much headway with the resources I have come across so far. Can anybody suggest any resource which discusses search engines (or Sphinx) with somebody like me in mind? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thinking Sphinx" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx?hl=en.
