My original home-grown solution was actually much better than nms simple search. I actually had a table of inverted index of words, a table of stop words, and a master dictionary table (essentially SQL-constructed from the standard dict that comes with Unix) for avoiding duplication. As I said, worked very well except for stemming and fuzzy searches, but required a SQL db. nms will be going backward.

I do have Plucene implemented now as an experimental mechanism. Would like to hear it compared to Kinosearch? Additionally, as I said in my OP, Plucene is pretty sparely documented. It took a lot of digging around, and I still don't know, for example, how to score relevancy. Surely, Plucene can't be the canonical Perl website search mechanism if it is so (IMO) sparely documented, and the last update was almost a year ago. Kinosearch logs show some recent activity, but fwiw, Plucene is "1.14" version numbers ahead ;-).

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In reply to Re^2: looking for a good Perl-way for implementing website search by punkish
in thread looking for a good Perl-way for implementing website search by punkish

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