Comments about O'Reilly Media Introduction to Search with Sphinx:

This is a review of Oreilly's excellent new (April 2011) book
Introduction to Search with Sphinx. This review is also a bit of
a reading guide, if you don't mind. I am not a computer science
guru, as you'll notice. I just want a search box on my website that
finds the right stuff. I have actually read the book. Sphinx is
open source. ISBN: 9780596809539

In the Preface, the author gives us this heads up about the audience
he expects: "I assume that readers have a basic familiarity with
tools for system administrators and programmers, including the
command line and simple SQL." This sounds good to me–it doesn't
say I need to know anything about search, which is good, because
I don't. The more experience with linux, mysql, SQL and programming
you bring, the easier this book will be to read. If BM25 and NLP
don't mean much to you, you'll have to get a CompSci PhD for a few
of the paragraphs in this book.

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Comments about O'Reilly Media Introduction to Search with Sphinx:

Very good introduction to Sphinx and search general for absolute beginners. This book step-by-step describes all aspects of creating search system for small project.

The book lacks info about distributed indexes, creating morphology and other advanced aspects.

Need the basic knowledge of SQL.