Better, faster searching

Over the New Years holiday, the Socialtext hosted service upgraded its search engine, providing even better professional-quality search. The new search engine includes support for:

• stemming – a search for the word “link” also finds “linked” and “linking”
• finding alphanumeric strings, version numbers, part numbers, and symbols
• reliable search for UTF-8 character sets such as Chinese and Japanese.
• faster searching and faster indexing

Existing advanced search features, including title and tag search, continue to work as before.

For people who are interested in the details, we’re now using Kinosearch, which is a different and better implementation of the previous search technology that we were using. KinoSearch is a Perl and C search engine similar to Lucene, a mature and respected Java-based open source search engine.

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