App Engine releases full-text search

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/looking-for-search-find-it-on-google.html

by adrinavarro • 14 years ago

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diminish• 14 years ago

interesting to see GAE from Google to have search capabilities coming so late. I have tried to use custom search, however it does not have the same index and quality as the google.com

joshu3• 14 years ago

hooray! i have been hoping for this for a while.

pw• 14 years ago

Why?

joshu3• 14 years ago

It makes a bunch of app ideas that I had feasible.

salimmadjd2• 14 years ago

If you are building anything serious, I would avoid GAE! Since their price hike (5-10X) in November you'll be paying 5-10X for the same performance on AWS and even more if you get a good deal on your own dedicated servers.

krosaen3• 14 years ago

cool that the search expressions are s-expressions:

https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/search/o...

axiak2• 14 years ago

Huh? Presence of parentheses != s expressions. For starters, the expression "foo" AND "bar" is valid, but not an s expression.

krosaen3• 14 years ago

Ha, whoops, you're right. Ironically, I jumped to assume this because internally the "structured search" api was in fact s-expression based (at least as of a couple years ago). Looks like they made it infix for the public api? WTH

krosaen3• 14 years ago

The full text capability itself is great to have added, no more rolling our own indices / stemmers and taking StringListProperty to the max and using hacks with parent keys[1].

That said, bummed that the compound filtering expressions are apparently not powerful enough to find ranges [2], and therefor filter based on location. Sigh, guess we're still stuck with geoboxes for a while longer.

[1] http://www.billkatz.com/2009/6/Simple-Full-Text-Search-for-A...

[2] http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=72...

abeppu• 14 years ago

Some folks wondered for a long time whether AWS would roll out a search product, and they finally did like 4 weeks ago. And as the blogpost mentions, full-text search has been a long time coming to App Engine. Does anyone have insight into whether the release of CloudSearch caused the App Engine to release this sooner than they otherwise would have?

salimmadjd2• 14 years ago

You know what's wrong with this post? The date! If it was May 8, 2010 instead of May 8, 2012 it would have been something.

App Engine releases full-text search

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