On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:23:47 +0100, Magnus Manske <magnus.manske(a)web.de> wrote: Well, according to their SF page, it doesn't support UTF-8, so it's not yet really useful as a general replacement for MediaWiki-search. However, the MediaWiki part of my search system can be used with any external search engine, including Ioda (as long as it supports queries via a socket) - the Lucene search daemon could just be considered as a reference implementation. Maybe I should rename LuceneSearch to ExternalSearch ;) In theory it could even be used with the MySQL search system if people wanted the new interface features without needing to run an external daemon... (Additionally, the MWDaemon implementing Lucene is under a more-free license, MIT, and Lucene itself is under the Apache Software License, so it is probably more suitable for those wishing to re-use it; and for those that don't like Java, there's always CLucene or whatever it's called... not that I think it would be worth the effort myself). As for progress, the LuceneSearch extension (minus the find-as-you-type part, which is new and likely to contain bugs) should be pretty usable now; the only major component left to implement is on-the-fly updating of pages in the search daemon. Stare in awe and wonder at fancy new features like 'did you mean?' spelling corrections and close title match suggestions ;) Kate.