Reviews

On May 17 Thomas Maher wrote: Book Review: Introduction to Search with Sphinx, by Andrew Aksyonoff
Chapter 1 "The World of Text Search" is awesome fun. Who knew that Sphinx (and Google) searches use AND by default but that Lucene uses OR by default. Chapter 1 is mostly a refreshing breeze, but we do get precision about the meaning of many terms including document, index, match, result set. Full Review  >

Rating: 5.0

On May 16 John Brady wrote: Introduction to Search with Sphinx
Introduction to Search with Sphinx is a short (127 pages in the e-book edition) text describing some of the potential uses for the Sphinx search server. After a brief exposition on the "world of text search", which defines some search-related terms and concepts, it's off to install Sphinx and perform required configuration, then delving into running searches, index maintenance and ranking results. Full Review  >

Rating: 4.0