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by tanoku 1656 days ago
Oh OK, you have clearly spent more time thinking about this problem than the team of engineers at GitHub who've been researching code search at scale for more than four years. I bet they feel real silly right now knowing they could have shipped this search engine in a couple weeks taping together off-the-shelf libraries if they only had your talent for software architecture.
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Sure, I did. I've implemented a proper search for a very big companies document and knowledge base. Similar to gmane, which also used xapian. Much better than what I see there. Or with the old google code search