Introduction to Search with Sphinx: From installation to relevance tuning

Webmasters want fast and powerful search capabilities on their sites, and content management system administrators would like to reveal the wealth of their databases. The solution in both cases is the Sphinx search engine. 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.

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 searches
• Install and configure Sphinx, and run a few basic tests
• Issue basic queries to Sphinx at the application level
• Learn the syntax of search text and the effects of various search options
• Get strategies for dealing with large data sets, such as multi-index searching
• Apply relevance and ranking guidelines for presenting best results to the user

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 The World of Text Search
Chapter Getting Started with Sphinx
Chapter 3 Basic Indexing
Chapter 4 Basic Searching
Chapter 5 Managing Indexes
Chapter 6 Relevance and Ranking

Book Details

• Paperback: 140 pages
• Publisher: O’Reilly Media (April 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596809557
• ISBN-13: 978-0596809553