Re: [Gossip] search library battle royale

2006-09-08 Thread Olly Betts
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 09:39:46PM -0700, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: By private email, one person noted that Xapian is not doing so hot on Czech. As in not returning search results. I'm a little suprised that anything gets found that isn't in ASCII since Omega's indexer is generating words from

Re: [Gossip] search library battle royale

2006-09-06 Thread Mac Oglesby
Hi Jeff, I don't understand a lot of what's been said about evaluating these search engines, but I'll comment anyway. Since, for me at least, easy to use but full-featured search software is a vital part of any archive, the ideal search engine should be powerful, yet intuitive to operate,

Re: [Gossip] search library battle royale

2006-09-05 Thread Dan Temple
Jeff Breidenbach wrote: Ok, ok, you score some serious points here, especially on Asian languages, but Xapian holds its own on European languages. I think. Check out some Brazilian Portuguese action below. And I hear the Xapian team is working hard on full UTF-8 support. Hope they aren't