On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Keith Jenkins <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > But for anything larger, you'd probably want to figure > out a way to manually build an index within the Google datastore, or > else keep the indexing outside GAE, and just use GAE for fetching > specified records. Any ideas on how that might work? > Presumably, it would work the same way Google's primary web index does - which after all uses the same infrastructure; you chop each fields into words, create an index of these words from their ids that maps them to a list of records (in Google: pages) that contains them. See Brin/Page's only paper for details: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html - Godmar