Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-15 Thread Terry Reedy
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Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-15 Thread aaron . watters
On Oct 12, 2:01 am, Paul Rubin wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > That's reasonable speed, but is that just to do the set intersections > and return the size of the result set, or does it retrieve the actual > result set? It only showed 20 results on a page. I notice

Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-11 Thread Paul Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/gut.py/go?FREETEXT=w > (w for "web") we get 6294 entries which takes about 500ms on > a cold index and about 150ms on a warm index. This is on a very > active shared hosting machine. That's reasonable speed, but is that just to do the set

Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-11 Thread aaron . watters
regarding http://nucular.sourceforge.net On Oct 11, 12:32 pm, Paul Rubin wrote: > > How many items did each query return? When I refer to large result > sets, I mean you often get queries that return 10k items or more (a > pretty small number: typing "python" into googl

Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-11 Thread Paul Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > ...but it looks a little more akin to Solr than to Lucene. ... > > I'm not sure but I think nucular has aspects of both since > it implements both the search engine itself and also provides > XML and HTTP interfaces That sounds reasonable. > As a test I built an in

Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-11 Thread aaron . watters
On Oct 11, 3:30 am, Paul Rubin wrote: > "Delaney, Timothy (Tim)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As for [ http://nucular.sourceforge.net ] > itself, I've only had a chance to glance at the > site... Thanks for taking a look. I hope you don't mind if I disagree with a numb

Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-11 Thread Paul Rubin
"Delaney, Timothy (Tim)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the case of "nucular", it's a mispronunciation that has been widely > ridiculed all over the world. There are people (including myself) who so > associate it as an object of ridicule that it's an immediate turn-off. It gave me a chuckle, si

RE: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-10 Thread Delaney, Timothy (Tim)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> From: Grant Edwards >> >> Anyway, I apologize for my attempt at humor, since it appears >> to have somehow offended. > > Why apologize? If someone doesn't like the name given to a piece of > software by its author(s), screw them. If I find the software useful, > I'l

Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-10 Thread George Sakkis
On Oct 10, 11:08 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why apologize? If someone doesn't like the name given to a piece of > software by its author(s), screw them. If I find the software useful, > I'll use it. Even if its called 'bouncingBetty'. Or 'BeautifulSoup' for that matter ;-) George -- htt

RE: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-10 Thread Michael . Coll-Barth
> From: Grant Edwards > > Anyway, I apologize for my attempt at humor, since it appears > to have somehow offended. Why apologize? If someone doesn't like the name given to a piece of software by its author(s), screw them. If I find the software useful, I'll use it. Even if its called 'bounci

Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-10-09, Bill Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/9/07, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 2007-10-09, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> On Oct 9, 8:46 am, Istvan Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> ps. there is a python proje

Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-09 Thread Bill Hamilton
On 10/9/07, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-10-09, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On Oct 9, 8:46 am, Istvan Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> ps. there is a python project named "The Devil Framework", I cringe > >>> every time I he