Wed Jul 03 06:25:31 GMT 2013 From /weblog/design/examples

Lucene

How Lucene implement transaction - http://blog.mikemccandless.com/2012/03/transactional-lucene.html

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Sun Jun 10 14:54:15 GMT 2012 From /weblog/design/examples

llvm

The design of LLVM - http://www.drdobbs.com[..]9_h&elq=d513b4b897824dcc8fef763eaf9bc12a

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Thu Mar 01 14:35:45 GMT 2012 From /weblog/design/examples

mailinator compresses

How Mailinator compresses email by 90%, how to analysis the bottleneck and how to find the solution to get good compression ration and also fast to compress - http://mailinator.blogspot.com[..]w-mailinator-compresses-email-by-90.html

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Mon Mar 17 17:25:25 GMT 2008 From /weblog/design/examples

suggestion of search engine improvement

Nice suggestions, I think this can apply to most search function

Don’t tell me everything you know - limit to specific set of datas , like ameture / professional
Ask me the next most reasonable question
Offer me to establish my search identity

http://jooto.com[..]008/01/05/how-to-improve-search-engines/

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Sat Jan 14 17:11:21 GMT 2006 From /weblog/design/examples

global search sample

An nice article provide a complicate solution of global search - "Domain Searching Using Visitors". I think you can guess from the name, it is a solution which is look nice and damn flexible. However, this also very complicate and not everyone like to do that much upfront design first. Anyway, a nice reading

http://www.onjava.com/lpt/a/5927

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