… sheds some light on FaceBook search implementation. As we’re recently a lot into search having implemented a bunch of search projects ourselves and… required is simple boolean full text search. Also FaceBook search does not seems to support phrases search, so searching for “Bill Smith” gets you back…
Comment: FaceBook Search, Search for social networks
November 12, 2010 By 4 Comments
… Open Graph could be the biggest thing to happen to search since Google as it involves humans via ‘liking’ and ‘sharing… burden and reliance on machine processing of search results. Already there are impressive and useful Facebook search services such as http://www.facebooksearch…
Comment: FaceBook Search, Search for social networks
August 12, 2007 By 4 Comments
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Comment: FaceBook Search, Search for social networks
August 12, 2007 By 4 Comments
Michael says Facebook crawls their own site because they plan to implement global Web search engine and it is just the trial…. I do not know which plans FaceBook has but implementing Web Search is very far from searching your own web site, even if… most popular search service works well if you find what you need with just couple of page views, with FaceBook however you…
Post: Percona Live is on Wednesday - thank you to all our sponsors
February 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
… include presenters from Rightscale, Clustrix, RethinkDB, Zmanda, Percona, Continuent, Sphinx Search, Fusion-io, Schooner, Scalr, CouchOne and FathomDB. (I say… the afternoon. Facebook for providing a prize for the best ignite talk. We would also like to thank Sphinx Search, Ivinco, Circonus…
Post: Scaling: Consider both Size and Load
July 13, 2010 By 5 Comments
… data size. You can think about Google search engine – the data size on which search operation is performed is constant, no matter… and increasing amount of versions in system. Applications such as Facebook, Flickr or Twitter have a very clear correlation between traffic…
Comment: Why you don't want to shard.
August 6, 2009 By 33 Comments
… you to separate out this functionality reasonably elegantly; – Logging and searching are two problems that are normally pretty expensive, and a… another server/group servers. – If we look at something like Facebook/Flickr/Livejournal the friendship system is usually expensive enough that…
Comment: MySQL: Data Storage or Data Processing
November 24, 2007 By 9 Comments
Well Google is just an example. It could be Amazon, FaceBook or Yahoo… a lot of smaller second tier web sites… of such. Speaking about Google – this is deliberate choice of search application. There are many services using same underlying infrastructure such…
