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Hi, I was reading an article recently about how google ranks results (among many other things of course) based on the proximity of the search terms in the source documents. In addition, the position of the search terms in the search query string itself is also taken into consideration when determining how important each term is. Does Xapian do something similar - at least for the first part?

Hallo, I'm new to xapian and have only started checking it out, so please forgive my silly questions. I'm trying to get my head around the following: Given the following fields (values with prefixes): Name: .... Surname: .... Address: .... ... How can I (by default) search in Name and Surname only? ie, I want to ignore the Address field during search, unless I explicitly search it

Hi, Two questions which I'm unsure about: Stemming: I've turned on stemming, etc, but how can I confirm that it's being used in searches? What should I look/search for? Stopwords: I'm trying out xapian on a regional dataset (searching data from a *.co.us TLD, eg) . I've noticed that searching for [bob co.us] results in *very* slow search times (tens of seconds), since it