Category: Search

Case Study: Improving Performance of MySQL, Thinking Sphinx in a Rails app

by Gautam Rege, posted in Case Studies, Ruby on Rails, Search

Recently, we faced a huge performance problem with one of our installed apps. The application is a Call Center ERP solution. The Call model is updated very frequently as there are about approximately 8,000 - 10,000 calls being made everyday. For every action there is an audit trail, so updates and inserts into database are … Continue reading Case Study: Improving Performance of MySQL, Thinking Sphinx in a Rails app

Experience In Using IndexTank & Its various Facets

by Gautam Rege, posted in Ruby, Search

IndexTank got acquired by LinkedIn just a while back and I received a newsletter saying that they may discontinue services in 6 months. My tweet about this got a few responses from Pat Allen (@pat - the creator of Flying Sphinx) and others, which ended up with me promising a brief comparison between Thinking Sphinx … Continue reading Experience In Using IndexTank & Its various Facets

How to submit sitemap to search engines

by sandipransing, posted in Ruby on Rails, Search, Search Engine Optimization

There are many ways that can be used to submit sitemap to search engines.Lets discuss approaches1. Put sitemap.xml in public folder and you are done.    Crawlers will find it through url    http://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml2. There are many online sites which generates sitemaps for you.    like http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/3. Open following urls in browser. Be sure to add xml sitemap path … Continue reading How to submit sitemap to search engines