Re: Full text search?

[Jolan Luff <jolan@...>]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 09:06:43PM +0100, PA wrote:
> On Feb 07, 2005, at 18:03, Jolan Luff wrote:
> >>>What about a pure Lua solution to full text search?
> >>
> >>Yes, that would be cool. But how?
> >
> >Using the pattern matching functions?
> 
> Hmmm... I always, albeit naively perhaps, thought that information 
> retrieval was more than just about pattern matching. Who want to break 
> to news to Google? :P

Is "full text search" some new buzzword that I'm not familiar with?
Looking at:

http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/queryparsersyntax.html

I don't really see anything too fancy going on, at least nothing that
couldn't be piggybacked onto the pattern matching functions.