[Xapian-discuss] Xapian for Wikia?

[Charlie Hull]

Hi all,

I noticed all the press coverage about Jimmy Wales' new search venture, 
which doesn't seem to have a fixed name yet but I'll call Search Wikia 
for now:
http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Search_Wikia

I've joined the mailing list and suggested Xapian as a core (they're 
also considering Lucene, Nutch and Yacy - the latter is causing me some 
amusement as the Yacy developers seem to argue a lot :-). This has 
recieved some positive feedback, and it seems other people think it's 
worth considering as well:
http://search.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum:Search_Projects_worth_researching&t=20070107152502

Jimmy's just responded to my initial post and said that everything is 
still up for grabs, they're installing servers this Friday and they want 
to "turn people loose on them to start playing around and testing".

Not sure I'm Unix savvy enough to do this (bet you the servers won't be 
Windows :-) but I thought I'd mention it in case anyone fancies the job...

Cheers

Charlie