search engine

Over the course of the summer my project has taken shape and become quite a full fledged search solution. This new search module allows for small typing errors, includes calls to pre-existing search module hooks such as nodeapi's 'update index' op, and includes an interface to allow external modules to modify node scoring.

As I am entering the home stretch of the project I have gotten a small amount of feedback from various testers regarding my fuzzy search module but so far have gotten no feedback on how good the algorithm is at returning relevant results. I have just recently reworked my algorithm to tighten up the matching. I'd really appreciate it if I could get a person with a site that has over 400+ nodes or so to test out the module and see how fast it performs and how relevant they believe the results are.

Part 1 of my project (implementing synonym matching in the search index) is nearly completed, I am waiting for the patches to be accepted into core for drupal 6. In addition to synonym matching I also submitted a patch to index usernames with the nodes as requested in the Search group on drupal.org. The patches can be reviewed here, all comments welcome.

http://drupal.org/node/155262 - Taxonomy synonym search indexing
http://drupal.org/node/155254 - Username search indexing

For part 2 of my project I am to implement a fuzzy search engine in drupal.