Comments on: Sphinx for search http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2008/01/09/sphinx-for-search/ Technical tidbits (somewhat) related to my work on Ravelry.com Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:46:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Tom Harrison http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2008/01/09/sphinx-for-search/#comment-36 Tom Harrison Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:08:43 +0000 http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2008/01/09/sphinx-for-search/#comment-36 <p>I also looked at ferret (and we use Lucene) and have to say that it seems to be about as good, out of the box, as Alta Vista was in 1996, which ain't saying much. It seems like a great deal of messy configuration wrapped around a neat but overly abstracted interface.</p> <p>I'll definitely check out Sphinx.</p> I also looked at ferret (and we use Lucene) and have to say that it seems to be about as good, out of the box, as Alta Vista was in 1996, which ain’t saying much. It seems like a great deal of messy configuration wrapped around a neat but overly abstracted interface.

I’ll definitely check out Sphinx.

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