Re: SourceForge.net Lucene based search announcement

2005-05-29 Thread Chris Lu
Hi, Chris Conrad, thanks for your reply. I guess it'll be very interesting for us to hear the story of how sourceforge built the search by lucene. Like what's the structure, how the indexes are synchronized/updated, and how it can perform under your current load. Any tips will also be very int

Re: SourceForge.net Lucene based search announcement

2005-05-27 Thread Chris Conrad
Hello, The "results by YAHOO! search" is a marketing thing that we have no real control over. I promise that the actual project search engine is using Lucene. As for defaulting to OR, it was decided that the new search should function as similarly as possible to the old search system by

Re: SourceForge.net Lucene based search announcement

2005-05-27 Thread Chris Lu
Hi, I found Sourceforge's search is still "results by YAHOO! search". What does that mean? And currently, seems the search condition for the keywords is still OR, not AND. This makes search for "lucene java" returns a long list, yet without the one I wanted in the first several rows. Chris L

Re: SourceForge.net Lucene based search announcement

2005-05-25 Thread Erik Hatcher
Congrats, Chris! This was no doubt a big effort. I didn't do much but lend some moral support. There was an odd issue you had with certain types of queries at one point - did you get that resolved? Erik On May 25, 2005, at 3:40 PM, Chris Conrad wrote: Hello, I just wanted to let e

SourceForge.net Lucene based search announcement

2005-05-25 Thread Chris Conrad
Hello, I just wanted to let everyone know that we've officially announced that the new SourceForge.net search system is based on Lucene. It's been in operation for over a month now and we're very happy with it. I'd also like to personally thank Erik Hatcher for helping me out during dev