Xapian is a search engine

Xapian is a search engine an information retrieval toolkit

Index my stuff

Find things

… quickly

But also...

Arbitrary Boolean restrictions Correct spelling mistaks Suggest search completions Find similar things Browse facets of things Find nearby things Get diverse results Find images which look similar Different sort orders Arbitrary weight influences

But also...

Open Source (GPL)

Great support (particularly if you live in Cambridge)

But also...

Python wrapper (“xappy”) REST/HTTP server Next layers up Easier to use Easier to integrate

http://searchevent.org/ “A day of informal presentations, open discussion and hacking on open source search technologies.” Tuesday 29 th September 2009 Friends meeting house Learn more Free!

Richard Boulton [email_address] @rboulton http://xapian.org/ http://flax.co.uk/ http://code.google.com/p/flaxcode/ Photo credits: http://www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/729822/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephmcg/1592886057/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/3389581452/