Perl API to Lucene

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On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 03:39:18PM +0200, Thomas Busch wrote:
> Hi Leon,
> > Ooohh, I thought you were talking about CLucene. I've been playing
> > with Search::Xapian recently, which appears to just work (and allows
> > updating the index while reading, something Plucene couldn't do). Ah
> While you are speaking about it do you have any performance benchmarks
> for Xapian ? Also do you know if sorting/ranking is customizable ? 

Sorting is completely customizable within Xapian itself, as you supply a
"template" for it to output in. This defines more than just the output
format, unfortunately. I'm not sure how much stuff I've seen is Locayta
(the commercial version of Xapian, which we use) and how much is Xapian,
though.

I don't think you can change its ranking algorithm particularly, but you
might possibly be able to weight bits differently.

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