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05-02-2003, 09:42 AM #1Web Hosting Master
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Disabling Search Temporarily
Temporarily disabled while I re-index it.
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05-02-2003, 09:44 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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About time..
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05-02-2003, 10:10 AM #3Dennis Johnson
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Man . . . .. like ta freak me out.
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05-02-2003, 10:46 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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I was just about to ask what was going on. Atleast you're kind enough to post that you're doing something to it.
What does one host say to the other? "(HostA) Want to go see a movie?" "(HostB) Sure, can your parents drive?"
I'm premium, and no, I did not have to pay $6 a month to figure that out.0
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05-02-2003, 11:02 AM #5
ahhhhhh that explains some stuff
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05-02-2003, 12:05 PM #6Web Hosting Guru
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Wow, that's annoying! (But necissary. ) I keep forgetting and trying to search! How much longer are we looking at?
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05-02-2003, 12:09 PM #7
That was interesting...'view new posts'...search disabled. :O
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05-02-2003, 12:14 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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It takes a very long time. It's a little over half done now.
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05-02-2003, 01:25 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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I wanted to find out what was going on so naturally I tried to do a search. . . .
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05-02-2003, 01:55 PM #10Dennis Johnson
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Originally posted by WebDev
It takes a very long time. It's a little over half done now.
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05-02-2003, 02:11 PM #11Web Hosting Master
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We're here now:
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05-02-2003, 02:13 PM #12Web Hosting Master
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Wow... heh, bet you're having fun ?
What does one host say to the other? "(HostA) Want to go see a movie?" "(HostB) Sure, can your parents drive?"
I'm premium, and no, I did not have to pay $6 a month to figure that out.0
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05-02-2003, 02:14 PM #13Web Hosting Master
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and we're at post id 111#### I want my new posts
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05-02-2003, 03:10 PM #14Junior Guru Wannabe
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Hours or Days?
Are we talking about hours or days to complete indexing?
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05-02-2003, 03:32 PM #15Web Hosting Guru
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I think I just hit the "new posts" link and got the "search disabled" screen for the 600th time today! It's like it's built into my reflexes to sit at my PC, open WHT and click there. I think I spend too much time here....
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05-02-2003, 03:33 PM #16Web Hosting Master
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Hours, it's been running since ~8am. It slows down because of traffic/posting, occasionally.
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05-02-2003, 03:45 PM #17Web Hosting Master
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That's a long time..
What does one host say to the other? "(HostA) Want to go see a movie?" "(HostB) Sure, can your parents drive?"
I'm premium, and no, I did not have to pay $6 a month to figure that out.0
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05-02-2003, 03:51 PM #18Web Hosting Master
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I have a feeling it wont be finished before I have to leave tonight, I'll have to leave my computer going and check on it later tonight.
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05-02-2003, 04:29 PM #19Junior Guru Wannabe
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Hiya,
Just to show my ignorance, umm whats indexing?
p.s. i miss the search button
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05-02-2003, 05:12 PM #20Web Hosting Master
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Do you have to completly reindex to just add new threads?
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05-02-2003, 05:20 PM #21WHT Addict
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LOL Westech, Most of the vB boards I visit are bookmarked to the new posts search link.
Salsa, pretty much the same thing that indexing a book is, it's making it quicker and easier to do searches. Technically, I can't tell ya exactly what it is, but it should make searches easier.
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05-02-2003, 06:10 PM #22Web Hosting Master
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Search is re-enabled.
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05-02-2003, 06:44 PM #23Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by WebDev
Search is re-enabled.0
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05-02-2003, 06:50 PM #24Web Hosting Master
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I dont think it was ever funky perse, I think I figured out why 'unitedhosting' was having his problem, his company name exceeded the max word limit so it wasnt being indexed, which has now been extended.
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05-02-2003, 07:19 PM #25Web Hosting Evangelist
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For those who were asking, the default vBulletin search index works like this (and I can make no guarantee the WHT folks haven't changed this):
1) Posts are ripped into unique words with punctuation stripped. "This post is my first post!" becomes the word list: this, post, is, my, first. The words are made uniform (all lowercase, generally).
2) The unique words are inserted/replaced into the database. If the word already exists, return the existing word ID, otherwise return the new word ID. (is, a, the, etc -- likely exist, blahblahsuperblah is probably new).
3) Create or update an index/matrix that associates the word IDs with each post/thread combo.
Say the following words have the given IDs:
first - 122
post - 252
And the "This post is my first post" message is post 1024. The search index looks something like:
Word_id | Post_id
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122 1024
252 1024
When someone does a search, the words in the search are turned into their word IDs which are compared to the search index/matrix. If you did a search for "first", it would look up word id 122 -- which would return post 1024 (likely amoung others).
Things get more complicated with booleans, etc. But that's how indexes work in a nutshell with the default vBulletin code.
It's incredibly fast -- MUCH faster than doing a word search in a block of text.
On top of the text indexing, the numerical word IDs and post IDs are also indexed by the database engine (MySQL, Postgre, etc.)Jeff Standen, Software Architect, Cerb
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