Jimbo, I sent you a zillion mails today (your night;), with a better search
engine among them.
Magnus
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From: wikipedia-l-admin(a)nupedia.com
[mailto:wikipedia-l-admin@nupedia.com]On Behalf Of Jimmy Wales
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 10:06 PM
To: wikipedia-l(a)nupedia.com
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] rate of change
Lars Aronsson wrote:
Would it be reasonable to update the search index
each time a new
version of a page is saved? In that case, the search would still be
indexed (and fast), but it would always be up-to-date.
This is true now, since the pages are in a true database with Magnus's new
software. In the old version, all the data was just stored in text files
on disk. I wrote a program to go through and analyze the
keywords from all
the pages and titles, and construct a search index from that.
I always wanted to put it on a cron job to update nightly, but it was
so inefficient that I didn't feel comfortable letting it run without
supervision, and I didn't feel comfortable running it all that often.
Now that everything is in a real database, it should be true that with a
little playing around and tweaking, we can get decent results that are
fast and also always instantly updated.
The current version is a very simple SQL query. It doesn't work
so well in
terms of being intelligent about returning what you probably want.
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