RE: Announcement: Lucene powering CNET.com Product Category Listings

2005-08-31 Thread Chris Hostetter
ins what you need to display the main results, and mfgs and mfg_counts contain what you need to display the manufacturer counts. : Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:35:13 -0400 : From: "Friedland, Zachary (EDS - Strategy)" : To: Chris Hostetter : Subject: RE: Announcement: Lucene powering CNET.

Re: Announcement: Lucene powering CNET.com Product Category Listings

2005-08-31 Thread David Spencer
Nice write up. One other nice thing I noticed is you seem to sort numeric attributes numerically instead of alphabetically e.g. here: http://reviews.cnet.com/4566-3156_7-0.html?filter=500193_5314692_ see the 3rd col, "Find by max speed", and note that has has choices in this order: < 2

Re: Announcement: Lucene powering CNET.com Product Category Listings

2005-08-30 Thread Chris Hostetter
: How large is the index? I'm not sure if i'm permitted to give out that info, but I do happen to recall seeing this page before... http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:qkHzwrcO1AAJ:www.cnetchannel.com/products/datasource.aspx+%22SKUs+in+production%22&hl=en ...so, yeah... you can draw whatever

Re: Announcement: Lucene powering CNET.com Product Category Listings

2005-08-30 Thread Chris Lu
Very nice implementation and a great write up. How large is the index? And when you keep posting new content to the index, will you optimize the index? -- Chris Lu Lucene Search RAD on Any Database http://www.dbsight.net On 8/30/05, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I

Announcement: Lucene powering CNET.com Product Category Listings

2005-08-30 Thread Chris Hostetter
I'm pleased to announce that for about a month now, CNET's "Product Listing" pages are powered by Lucene 1.4.3. These pages not only allow users to browse CNET's catalog of tech products by category, but also to "Filter" the lists according to category specific Attribute Filters which are display