TchargedLS1TA

iTrader: (9)

I think a big reason why people are retarded when it comes to using the search function is the braodness of the search. Is there anyway we can search posts based on the posts having the EXACT words typed in together. I hate it when i type in something specific and I get 1000 results for just one of the words, when I need both of them together.... If that makes any sense..

Brains

iTrader: (7)

The search indexes by word. If it indexed by phrase, search would be MUCH slower, and the index would be absolutely HUGE since there's no possible way for the search to know which words should be grouped together by phrase. You'd basically be back to searching the entire block of data. We're working with around 4.5 MILLION posts now, something like 11 gigs of data, so you can imagine the index gets quite large as-is

Its tough when people compare our search to something like Google. When you search on google, you are actually using a subset of their vast number of servers. Nobody but Google knows for sure, but there's an estimated 500,000 servers in their arsenal, and any given search can use any percentage of these. Obviously, that's a tad more horsepower than we have available to us Another interesting tidbit -- Google's ELECTRIC BILL runs somewhere between 1 and 2 MILLION DOLLARS PER MONTH..

TchargedLS1TA

iTrader: (9)

Hmmm, I didnt think it was that complex- I actually thought it would be easier since the search is more "to the point"..
C'mon fellas, you're telling me LS1Tech doesnt make as much or more than Google??
$2 million is pocket change for that Google dude, isnt he worth something like $140 million a year?

jpat1023