TinySearchEngine
Languages and libraries
search engine library
SHOW HN2011
43points
8comments
#286of 1,097 in 2011
Top 27%of 2011 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
1 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Idea: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Impressive compact implementation for a search engine
From 1 comment
As someone who works on search and is a scala fan, I'm super impressed. Next obvious question: how many lines would it take to add some sort of stemming?
whakojacko on HN
Objections
TF-IDF is not relevant for a tiny in-memory index
From 1 comment
i don't think tf-idf relevant for tiny in-memory index >__>
freakinasshowl on HN
Requests
Add stemming support
From 1 comment
As someone who works on search and is a scala fan, I'm super impressed. Next obvious question: how many lines would it take to add some sort of stemming?
whakojacko on HN
Questions
How long did indexing take on a large dataset
From 1 comment
Out of curiosity how long did that take to index?
boyter on HN
Alternatives named
Python vector space search implementations
From 3 comments
You can do the same in Python (in about the same amount of lines I suspect). The below is the core of the linked implementation (Vector Space) in 15 lines of Python. All you need…
boyter on HNCannot edit anymore, but here is an example I had written some time ago in Python. http://www.wausita.com/2010/08/build-vector-space-search-engine-python/
boyter on HNA bit opaque, but cute. I've got a Redis + Python version (keeps the index in Redis) that I talked about last year:…
DrJosiah on HN