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Search in Polecat, Part 1: Full text search on an index it owns
Polecat 5.29 added keyword search to the Critter Stack's SQL Server store, and it does not use SQL Server's full-text engine to do it. The inverted index Polecat maintains itself, the LINQ operators over it, and BM25 ranking derived from the token rows.
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