Dear Brethren,

do you find SuperSearch slow and unwieldy? That's because the database search is slow. I recently was playing with the most excellent KinoSearch library and discovered that certain things lend themselves well to a full-text search. For instance, I have created an index for searching CPAN's bug database (rt.cpan.org) and a web application to search it. I believe the result speaks for itself.

I am willing to dedicate time to indexing the perlmonks database (just need a place to host it). There are only about 600,000 nodes with a small number of them changing every day; at work, I used KinoSearch to index millions of documents and the searches are very fast and relevant. I believe that this is the type of thing that will a) make searching easier and b) take some load off the database.

Let's discuss? I hope I get the opportunity to contribute to the Monastery.

  - Dmitri.

Update: Track the progress here: http://code.google.com/p/monk-search/

In reply to Running SuperSearch off a fast full-text index. by dmitri

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