Sphinx Search

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Originally Posted by Jah-Hools

Wotcher Spinbal,

A quick question if I may.

I see you are using Google Custom search on your site..

So are you using Sphinx just for the VB Forum search?

Are most members using Google Custom as the default search? And only some using the VB search?

Thanks M8,

See - at 2 million posts search speed isnt a problem for me (so far) - what IS a problem is the forum members deep, deep unhappiness with the way the VB search works.. Google is the best way to search my forum (it handles 2 character content way better) so I am about to pull the trigger on Google Custom Business edition.. I wanted to make a last check to see if Sphinx would do the job better.. But all I can glean from these posts is 'use sphinx if VB search is slow' I don't see any raves about improved user functionality.. Does Sphinx simply improve speed for big forums and reduce the extra machines in a cluster of servers?

Its search functionality I am after.. Does Sphinx add functionality to the forum users experience - or just add speed?

Many thanks..

I don't have details of how many people use the Google search or how. But it's a useful alternative to the Sphinx search. We can only use Sphinx for the vB forums search. I don't have the time to look at learning how Sphinx works unfortunately.