[dev] Horde Search Engine

[Richard Brenner]

Hi.

I am also interested in how horde or google will choose, which
candidate will get the project. I also subscribed to the Search
project a few days ago, as you could see on the mailing list.
In my opinion, it's the best way to implement the search algorithms
completely in php.

Richard

2005/6/15, Erdinc YILMAZEL <erdinc at yilmazel.com>:
> Hello,
> 
> I see that there are many candidate students for the search engine
> project including me. How will google or Horde decide
> who will work on it ?
> 
> Moreover, I want to say a few words about using Lucene as a back end to
> the search application.
> 
> There is a project to port Lucene to the C programming language in
> Apache incubator, however it does not have any releases yet.
> http://incubator.apache.org/lucene4c/
> 
> There is a working Perl Api of Lucene that can be found at:
> http://search.cpan.org/~strytoast/Plucene-1.0/ (It makes accesses to the
> Lucene by using Perl syntaxt, we still need Lucene I think.)
> 
> But I am not very sure that using another search software is feasible.
> If you think of the portability, integrating another program that
> is written in C, Perl or Java might be a problem for the users.
> Additionally, although these external software can be used in indexing, and
> the indexing time is tolerable, querying the generated index is another
> problem.
> There are two solutions; first the queryies can be run by the external
> software and results are taken from it using php. (Overhead)
> Second, the querying can be done by Php, but this can also bring some
> difficulties since all internals of the index generated by the
> search software should be known.
> 
> I think the best way is building a complete solution in Php. Theory of
> index construction and text processing has matured, and using the
> available algorithms, implementing a pure Php solution will not be very
> hard.
> 
> Erdinc.
> 
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