Thanks for sharing that, Doug.  It's not mentioned at all in the
Developer's Guide ("contains everything you need to know"):
    http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/

I'll have to take a closer look at the src docs...

Keith


On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Doug Chestnut <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> There is a Searchable Entity with GAE.  Refer to the src for docs.  It is
> fairly straight forward, it takes the text of the properties, removes stop
> words, creates a new list property that contains the words.  An index on
> this property allows fast retrieval.  It is fairly limited, you don't want
> list properties to get too large (this is what the devs told me at google
> io).  From the docs:
>
> Don't expect too much. First, there's no ranking, which is a killer
> drawback.
> There's also no exact phrase match, substring match, boolean operators,
> stemming, or other common full text search features. Finally, support for
> stop
> words (common words that are not indexed) is currently limited to English.
>
> I have been playing with reverse indexes in GAE with some potential success
> for search and faceted browse.
>
> --Doug
>