Google adds full-text search to App Engine

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Google has an extensive search feature added to his App Engine. The api, which is still in the experimental stage, allows users of the Google App Engine in full-text-search to their applications to add.

According to Google, was full-text search is already a long time the most requested feature for Google App Engine. Users complained, indeed, already since 2008, stone and bone about the limited search functionality of the api, it appears from comments on the application of the full-text-search. “I believe that full-text search is a pretty important part for many web applications. You are Google, what can you do this?”, according to one of the complainants. It is unclear why it took so long for Google to have the feature added.

“This release contains many new features, including searching specific fields and ranges, and advanced features like scoring and snippeting,” according to the Google App Engine Full Text Search Team. Users may use the experimental api, among other uses, in combination with their apps to products index, prijsreeksen to search, and keywords in articles and comments to compare.