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To: SI Bob who wrote (17919)	5/29/2003 2:27:13 PM
From: Jon Tara	Read Replies (1) of 32871

Bob, I hope SI or iHub don't search the database of posts directly. You post implies this might be the case. The only way to do this effectively is with a search engine with seperate "inverted" database. ("Inverted" refers to the the fact that the documents are turned "inside out", so that it is accessed by words, not by document name). Search engines generally use a proprietary database format. It's generally not a very difficult task to interface a search engine. You generally need to write some code that will read a document and feed it to the search engine for indexing. (Since on a discussion site, documents aren't generally stored in simple flat files.) And you generally need to code or customize the UI to present results. Using such a search engine, I see no reason to limit the universe of documents indexed, unless you have a disk space constraint. Speed is much better than linear with respect to the number of documents or words indexed. The search database will generally take at least as much disk space as the documents themselves - in fact, perhaps more. There are quite a number of commercial and open-source search engines to choose from.

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