Ebook: Introduction to Search with Sphinx: From installation to relevance tuning

This concise introduction to Sphinx shows you how to use this free software to index an enormous number of documents and provide fast results to both simple and complex searches. Written by the creator of Sphinx, this authoritative book is short and to the point. Understand the particular way Sphinx conducts searchesInstall and configure Sphinx, and run a few basic testsIssue basic queries to Sphinx at the application levelLearn the syntax of search text and the effects of various search optionsGet strategies for dealing with large data sets, such as multi-index searchingApply relevance and ran.;Copyright; Table of Contents; Preface; Audience; Organization of This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; We'd Like to Hear from You; Safari® Books Online; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. The World of Text Search; Terms and Concepts in Search; Thinking in Documents Versus Databases; Why Do We Need Full-Text Indexes?; Query Languages; Logical Versus Full-Text Conditions; Logical conditions; Full-text queries; Differences between logical and full-text searches; Natural Language Processing; From Text to Words; Linguistics Crash Course; Relevance, As Seen from Outer Space.