[HN Gopher] How to Index Anything (2003)
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How to Index Anything (2003)
Author : usrbinenv
Score : 33 points
Date : 2022-10-22 19:42 UTC (3 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.linuxjournal.com)
| mro_name wrote:
| how does is compare to e.g. xapian?
| metadat wrote:
| This is an interesting alternative compared to, say, using
| Elasticsearch / OpenSearch.
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| One caveat appears to be index size, though:
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| > The indices can get large. In our example index of HTML files,
| the index occupies about 11MB, about one-fourth the size of the
| original files indexed.
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| Meta-observation: Whoa, the accessibility wheelchair in the lower
| right-hand side is unlike anything I've seen offered by a website
| before. It's like these people really care about user comfort.
| Refreshing.
| 867-5309 wrote:
| >the accessibility wheelchair in the lower right-hand side is
| unlike anything I've seen offered by a website before.
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| but they're not in a rush..
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33226849
| meesterdude wrote:
| It's open source:
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| https://github.com/ranbuch/accessibility
| metadat wrote:
| Very nice, thank you @meesterdude!
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| Submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33302783
| zvr wrote:
| This needs a "(2003)" in the title, so that people realize how
| old this information is. The (last?) version of the software
| mentioned is archived in https://github.com/swish-e/swish-e
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