the xapian open source search engine
DESCRIPTION
What is Xapian, and why you should care. A brief 13 minute talk given at Cambridge Geek Nights on 29th July 2009.TRANSCRIPT
Xapian is a search engine
Xapian is a search enginean information retrieval toolkit
Index my stuff
Find things
… quickly
But also...
Arbitrary Boolean restrictionsCorrect spelling mistaks
Suggest search completionsFind similar things
Browse facets of thingsFind nearby thingsGet diverse results
Find images which look similarDifferent sort orders
Arbitrary weight influences
But also...
Open Source (GPL)
Great support(particularly if you live in
Cambridge)
But also...
Python wrapper (“xappy”)REST/HTTP server
Next layers upEasier to use
Easier to integrate
http://searchevent.org/
“A day of informal presentations, open discussion and hacking on open source search
technologies.”
Tuesday 29th September 2009
Friends meeting house
Learn more
Richard [email protected]
@rboulton
http://xapian.org/http://flax.co.uk/
http://code.google.com/p/flaxcode/
Photo credits:http://www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/729822/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephmcg/1592886057/http://www.flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/3389581452/