From: Max Muermann <ruby@...>
Date: 2006-09-21T16:02:49+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ferret 0.10.6 released (and some benchmarks)

On 9/21/06, David Balmain <dbalmain.ml@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
>
> ** Description **
>
> Firstly for those who don't know, Ferret is a full-text search library
> which makes adding search to your application a breeze. It's much
> faster than MySQL full-text search as well most other search libraries
> out there. It allows you to do Boolean (+ruby + rails -jewelry) and
> phrase queries ("the quick brown fox") as well as some more unusual
> queries like fuzzy queries (misspelling~ matches mispeling or
> misspellng), wildcard queries (Aus?ral*), range queries
> (date:<=20050601) and a lot more. Ferret also now offers query result
> highlighting and excerpting.
>

Dave, congratulations on the great work you've done. I've been using
Ferret a lot and it has never disappointed me. The benchmarks are
fantastic, looking forward to what's coming next.

Thanks,
Max