Python Search Engine app

Will McGugan news at NOwillmcguganSPAM.com
Wed Sep 14 13:00:31 EDT 2005


Alan Meyer wrote:

> I'm not aware of such a thing.
> 
> I stand ready to be corrected, but I think Python would not be a
> good language for writing search engines.  In the ones I've written
> for custom projects - in C or PL/1, it has been necessary to
> perform very high speed operations on highly compressed binary
> structures - which is not Python's forte.
> 
> You might be able to put a Python interface over an engine written
> in another language.

Wasn't Google's first search engine actualy written in Python?


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