Introduction to Search with Sphinx

Preface;
Audience;
Organization of This Book;
Conventions Used in This Book;
Using Code Examples;
We’d Like to Hear from You;
Safari® Books Online;
Acknowledgments;
Chapter 1: The World of Text Search;
1.1 Terms and Concepts in Search;
1.2 Search Workflows;
Chapter : Getting Started with Sphinx;
2.1 Workflow Overview;
2.2 Getting Started ... in a Minute;
2.3 Basic Configuration;
2.4 Accessing searchd;
2.5 Building Sphinx from Source;
Chapter 3: Basic Indexing;
3.1 Indexing SQL Data;
3.2 Indexing XML Data;
3.3 Working with Character Sets;
3.4 Handling Stop Words and Short Words;
Chapter 4: Basic Searching;
4.1 Matching Modes;
4.2 Full-Text Query Syntax;
4.3 Result Set Contents and Limits;
4.4 Searching Multiple Indexes;
4.5 Result Set Processing;
Chapter 5: Managing Indexes;
5.1 The “Divide and Conquer” Concept;
5.2 Index Rotation;
5.3 Picking Documents;
5.4 Handling Updates and Deletions with K-Lists;
5.5 Scheduling Rebuilds, and Using Multiple Deltas;
5.6 Merge Versus Rebuild Versus Deltas;
5.7 Scripting and Reloading Configurations;
Chapter 6: Relevance and Ranking;
6.1 Relevance Assessment: A Black Art;
6.2 Relevance Ranking Functions;
6.3 Sphinx Rankers Explained;
6.4 Where to Go from Here;