On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 03:38:09PM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
On mar, 2003-01-07 at 14:40, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
- it might be good idea to consider making our own searching system instead of relying on something provided by database
Hell, why rely on a database? Why not write our own storage system? And filesystem... and virtual memory... and process manager... :)
We shouldn't have to be a wheel factory; if a good, fast, flexible search mechanism is available in our database we should use it.
Searching doesn't seem like something "general", it's almost always specific to given usage.
Examples of magic that would be nice to have (nothing urgent): 1. On Polish Wikipedia, if someone tries a query and no hits are generated, and it didn't contain any diactrics, try to search undiactricized version of whole database. Some people for some reason write ASCII Polish while on Internet. 2. Dictionary searches would also need more magic. See: http://wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Alternative_vision_of_multilingual_dic...