RE: How does ebay do it?

["Bob Cozzi" <bobcozzi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You're thinking is in the right direction.

I'm currently building an online store, ala eBay style. Right out of the
gate decided that a keyword search index was going to be necessary. So we
actually parse the item descriptions, name and allow input of a few other
keywords, and build the index from that as items are entered/added to the
system.

Then SQL or SETLL with READE works great and fast. Remember, with online
stores, response time for 1 or two or 10 users is not good enough. You have
to be able to handle 10,000 or more simultaneous users.

Bob Cozzi

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