I just wrote him and told him we're interested. Apparently, his software is in FreePascal and scans a complete SQL dump, then generates an index (for de in ~30min). Might have to tweaked to support changes up-to-the minute. Oh, good ol' Pascal days... :-)
I suggested for him to put the software up at sourceforge as its own project. If its holds up the promises (of which I have little doubt), other projects might want to use it as well. A simple, free, fast full-text search with powerful syntax like "(Gravitation* near (Newton or Cassini)) not Einstein" seems to be hard to find so far (pardon the pun).
Magnus
Kurt Jansson wrote:
[[de:Benutzer:Joma]] has written a fast search engine for a Wikipedia mirror which can handle complex search queries. He emphasises that it's meant as a supplement to an existing SQL database, not a replacement. He is willing to put the code under GPL if we are interested.
I think this might be useful for us, could one of the German speaking developers please take a look at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diskussion:Projekte%2C_die_Wikipedia_...
and - if we want to give it a try - get in contact with Joma?
Kurt