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Sphinx-related articles, blog posts, and other mentions English «Build a custom search engine with PHP» (recommended reading!), by Martin Streicher A nice starters' walkthrough on installing and integrating Sphinx. «Using Sphinx for non-full-text queries», by Alexey Kovyrin Alexey shares his benchmarks from production use of Sphinx as a distributed database (a kind of). «Installing Sphinx and Ultrasphinx on Windows» Short walkthrough on the topic. «In-depth Django-Sphinx tutorial», by David Cramer For the Pythonians, by the Pythonians! «Beast acts_as_sphinx», by Philip C. Plumlee In his blog post, Philip shows how do add a search engine to an online forum using test-driven development on Rails. «Searching database content with Sphinx», by Federico Kereki Feature column with a concise introductory overview. «Rails searching with Sphinx» Shortly comparing all those Rails plugins. «Doktus launched», by Arthur Koziel Briefly mentioning how S. ties in instead of L. (or, more formally, ZSL) «Going beyond full text search», by Peter Zaitsev Peter talks about non-fulltext Sphinx applications. «Searching the world in 231 seconds», by Evan Weaver Doing it on the Rails, with Evan's Ultrasphinx plugin. «acts_as_sphinx plugin», by Kent Sibilev A tutorial on using Sphinx in your Ruby-on-the-Rails apps through Kent's acts_as_sphinx. «PHP Search Engine Showdown», by Michael Douma In which Sphinx takes a small part. Spanish «Stemmer en castellano para SPHINX» This article talks about integrating custom-developed Spanish stemmer to Sphinx. Russian «Build a custom search engine with PHP», by Martin Streicher A nice starters' walkthrough on installing and integrating Sphinx. Czech «Fulltext search with Sphinx», by Jakub Vrana Some introductory Sphinx reading. Italian «Sphinx, the Russian black magic», by Ludovico Magnocavallo Overview and walkthrough in Italian. Turkish «Sphinx Search Engine Kurulum ve Temel Yapılandırma», by Salih Giray Installation and basic configuration of Sphinx explained in Turkish.