[Xapian-discuss] xapian vs lucene.net

[James Aylett]

On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:01:38AM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:

[cheeseshop]
> Dear me, they really really need a search engine instead of using
> Google!  Or to just sort out which pages Google sees and indexes.
> Currently Google just pulls up the "whittling down by category tags"
> page in N different states, which is no use to anybody.

Years ago people used to make sure they had a proper search engine on
their site. PHP.net used to have one. Now everyone uses Google and
assumes it'll get it right, which in general it won't :-(

> > (I note that the Xapwrap entry isn't being kept up to date, either.)
> I had to build the URL by hand, but the latest version (0.3.1) is on
> there.  The homepage URL it gives is wrong though (it's missing a
> "/wiki" in the middle.)

Yeah, that's what I meant. Maybe Xapwrap just hasn't moved much
recently, so they haven't updated the entry since reorging their
website. (Cool Uris Don't Change :-)

James

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