[bt-devel] change in search algo

[jdc]

I think this is a welcome change.  I have found that I need to search for things 
like "on, as, like, with, etc".

Thank You
Jim

Martin Gruner wrote:
> Hi friends,
> 
> today I changed BibleTime's (CVS) search implementation from using the 
> StandardAnalyzer to using the WhitespaceAnalyzer. The difference is that the 
> StandardAnalyzer applies a set of default English stop words to the text 
> being indexed and the queries. That means words like "the", "they" and "then" 
> were not found, because they are assumed to produce too many results. Within 
> BibleTime, this seems not acceptable to me, so I changed it. The new analyzer 
> just splits the query into words according to the whitespace. Everything will 
> be indexed and can be queried. This means the index will be slightly bigger, 
> but everything can be found.
> 
> Is this ok, or would somebody disagree? Please let me know.
> 
> mg
> 
> 
> P.S. I also improved our own search highlighting a bit to handle "*" more 
> correctly. The best solution, however, would be to use clucene for that as 
> well...
> 
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