What happened to search? (only google custom search with crippled possibilities?)

2011-02-12 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi *, what I always liked about mail-archive.com was its powerful search, but it seems it has been replaced by a google search, that doesn't support the lucene parameters anymore. The first change to the worse since I've been using mail-archive.com So if this is a permanent change (the message

Re: What happened to search? (only google custom search with crippled possibilities?)

2011-02-12 Thread Jeff Marshall
HI Christian. Actually, we've been using Google's search for our front-page site-wide search for years. Our internally-developed Lucene search has always been on the individual lists and still is. So we've never had Lucene search parameter controls on that site-wide search. The only change

Re: What happened to search? (only google custom search with crippled possibilities?)

2011-02-12 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
Perhaps it's time for us to revisit [Lucene for site-wide search] A few weeks ago I tested Lucene's ability to search across multiple indexes (MultiSearcher) and it is hopelessly slow; queries take 5 seconds across just a few hundred indexes. Right now I'm trying index merging

Re: What happened to search? (only google custom search with crippled possibilities?)

2011-02-12 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
I was doing some experiments today, and managed to briefly knock over a server in the process. I looked at searching multiple indexes (Lucene's MultiSearcher) and merging (IndexWriter.addIndexesNoOptimize). The former is unusably slow. The latter seems to be on track for about 6 hours if the

Re: What happened to search? (only google custom search with crippled possibilities?)

2011-02-12 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
Oops, sorry for the more-or-less duplicate message. The extra factor of 2 in time is because the temporary files are turning out twice as big as I was expecting. Earl, good suggestion, and no we haven't explored it (yet). -- To unsubscribe, send mail to gossip-unsubscr...@jab.org.