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The List
Sphinx powered sites, all 113 that let us know they want to be listed here,
and managed to be processed. (There are some in the queue, and many more who just did not let know.)
Highlights are based on (very occasionally recrawled) Alexa rank.
Hover the link for a description in the now-default tabular version,
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Biggest one: boardreader.com, forum search
engine indexing over 2,000,000,000 documents (and yes, that's billions) or in other
words over 2.0 TB of data.
Busiest one: craigslist.org, free classified
ads site, rumoured to fire about over 50,000,000 queries/day.
Most recent: craigslist.org, chemsink.com, foretagskatalog.com, fusemetrix.com, chatten.nl, cellularmall.ca, identi.ca, productplace.net, wikipik.org, rongbay.com, enbac.com.
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82ask.com
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figator.com
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pickii.com
| 82ASK is a SMS based question answering service. Sphinx indexes its large
collection of text messages with ease, where MySQL full text search was beginning to struggle.
Alexa rank: 3,270,791 figator.com, a well known search engine for P2P networks is also fueled by guess what.
It indexes over 30 million records and executes about 15 searches per second at peak times.
To quote Vakes Ltd representative, «For long time there was no open source product
available which would do this work better than out internal software, but Sphinx has bettered it.
For a few months now we use Sphinx as our search solution.»
Alexa rank: 9,166 Pickii finds the best reviewed products at Amazon and uses Sphinx to power the site's search
across several hundred thousand products. Not a huge dataset, but site users often comment
that the search function is lightning fast and returns useful results.
Alexa rank: 549,288 | |
absorbentprinting.com
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filestube.com
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preisomat.com
| Absorbent Printing uses Sphinx to search engine for their e-commerce site,
to search through online catalog containing more than 4500 promotional products
and corporate gifts.
Alexa rank: 77,183 filestube.com is a FTP/HTTP search engine aimed at files, with over
3,000,000 links to downloadable content currently in its database.
Sphinx-powered search latency (measured in milliseconds now) is the
most visible advantage,
but other nice features (such as grouping) did not go unnoticed too.
May 2008 update: FilesTube's newly launched video search service
that scouts 20,000,000 videos is Sphinx powered too!
Alexa rank: 1,314 Preisomat, the German price comparison service with over 6,000,000 prices, is powered by Sphinx Search and performing pretty well.
Alexa rank: 593,807 | |
all4divx.com
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foonews.net
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pricetaker.com
| Using Sphinx to search 3,000,000 subtitles.
Alexa rank: 59,901 Foonews, an international newsgroup gateway and search engine (currently covering
Italian, Spanish and French groups) indexes 14,000,000 posts using Sphinx.
Alexa rank: 80,681 Pricetaker team are running more than 15,000,000 items in their database, and for some reason, they love Sphinx.
Alexa rank: 775,974 | |
allcoins.org
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foretagskatalog.com (new!)
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productplace.net (new!)
| AllCoins.org, a comprehensive coin collecting sites directory, adds search capabilities using Sphinx.
Alexa rank: 1,343,152 Using Sphinx on a company directory to enhance searching among 120,000 companies.
Alexa rank: 1,391,659 ProductPlace.net is a product price comparison site offering free service to consumers
worldwide with over 50,000,000 products in the database from over 1000 online merchants from USA,
Canada, the UK, Australian, Germany, France, Italy, etc and growing. Sphinx enabled ProductPlace.net
users to find products and compare prices instantly. We are very satisfied with the performance of Sphinx.
Alexa rank: 1,768,075 | |
answer.se
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forum.vingrad.ru
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proza.com.ua
| Answer.se, a new and quickly growing social Q'n'A search engine in Swedish,
did its own testing on search systems and chose Sphinx becuse of the speed and compatibility.
It's used for search and listings for both the Web and mobile versions.
Alexa rank: 366,183 Vingrad, a major Russian programming portal, now uses Sphinx to search through its forum.
Alexa rank: 60,566 Proza, an Ukrainian online art magazine provides Sphinx-based search over thousands of its articles.
Alexa rank: 110,627 | |
aok.dk
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forumowisko.pl
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quotesdaddy.com
| The biggest cityguide in Denmark.
Alexa rank: 37,288 Adding another language to those which Sphinx speaks in, forumowisko.pl indexes
930,000 posts in Polish.
Alexa rank: 33,859 QuotesDaddy.com, a large online collection of famous quotes with over 1,000,000 entries
in the database, notifies that switching to Sphinx for searching improved overall site
performance many times. (Literally.)
Alexa rank: 109,716 | |
asmallworld.net
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freetorg.com
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rcgroups.com
| aSmallWorld, gated online neighbourhood for its 230,000 users, utilizes Sphinx for different kinds of (secret) searches.
Alexa rank: 9,641 FreeTorg is a B2B/B2C trade portal. Search is performed against 450,000+ trade leads.
Alexa rank: 133,438 RCGroups, the most active R/C community on the Internet, 10.6 million posts,
Sphinx powered.
Alexa rank: 16,034 | |
beslist.nl
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freshfolder.com
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redandwhitekop.com
| BesList is a product and price comparison engine that indexes over 7,000,000 products.
Alexa rank: 13,139 Searchable software directory featuring over 50000 shareware and freeware downloads for Windows.
Alexa rank: 584,931 To quote Ben, redandwhitekop.com maintainer, "been using it for about 10 months now on
to search through 3.5 million posts and it works great. Before Sphinx dealing with searches was a nightmare."
Alexa rank: 18,103 | |
biblioman.de
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fusemetrix.com (new!)
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regator.com
| Online shop with 3,000,000 antiquarian books from different sellers.
Alexa rank: 214,416 FuseMetrix, a web based office systems provider, uses Sphinx for
email searches. They have a range of clients who have anything from a couple
of hundred emails to many millions, and Sphinx makes 'em "blinding fast"! Regator, a blog aggregator and directory with a little over 1M posts (and adding 40K/week)
sometimes called fast and responsive by its users, has a secret sauce - several different features
(beyond simple search) are Sphinx-based.
Alexa rank: 156,525 | |
blavel.com
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geekstogo.com
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rongbay.com (new!)
| Blavel, a site to post travel blogs and photos, implements location autocompletion
by AJAX-searching over 6,600,000 geographical location names. (In addition to site search
that indexes a bit less objects.. for now.)
Alexa rank: 9,814,023 GeeksToGo.com, free computer help and tech support forum, 1.3 million posts, 250K members.
Recently moved to a new server, and didn't install Sphinx until about noon.
Here's the resulting load graph..
by far the biggest single change in terms of forums performance.
Alexa rank: 16,628 Rongbay is the online classified listing platform, the biggest one in Vietnam
with about 3 million records, 20,000 advertisement messages each day, and (as of late 2008)
average of 100,000 visits a day.
Alexa rank: 8,979 | |
blogcatalog.com
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geograph.org.uk
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rss-spider.com
| BlogCatalog.com blog search (indexing about 1.8 million posts and growing by about 20,000 a day) is now Sphinx powered, see it in action.
Alexa rank: 1,099 Since recently, Geograph British Isles project uses Sphinx for all the kinds of searching -
through about a million of images taken so far, lots of articles, a growing forum,
the username and gazetteer searches, and even query completion. Whoa.
Alexa rank: 60,622 | |
blogoat.com
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get-music.net
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sahibinden.com
| blogoat.com (and its Swedish bloggz.se brother) are blog search engines, with about 11 GB indexed text.
Alexa rank: 9,474,652 Get-Music.net and Get-Lyric.net are search engines over 260,000 songs and 1,200,000 song lyrics respectively.
Alexa rank: 25,756 Sahibinden, Turkey's local eBay, initially adopted a Sphinx to improve
its fulltext search – but at the moment it is actually also used to improve
certain non-fulltext MySQL queries as well.
Alexa rank: 1,265 | |
boardreader.com
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gutefrage.net
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simplemachines.org
| Now indexing over 2,000,000,000 documents (yes, that's two billion,
and it was 1 billion a year ago),
BoardReader forum search engine is the biggest Sphinx installation that we're aware of.
(Pedantic mode on: in terms of data size, there are busier installations in terms of queries.)
Alexa rank: 5,094 GuteFrage.net, a Q&A platform website, runs 800K search queries per day
against 250K document collection. Sphinx powers extraction of "related"
and "similar" questions in addition to basic searching.
Alexa rank: 1,492 Simple Machines are successfully using Sphinx to power the search engine on their support forums.
To quote Derek, "we're currently searching about 1.5 million posts and have dramatically reduced the load on our servers as well as increased search performance."
Alexa rank: 23,184 | |
bokt.nl
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hd.se
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skylinesaustralia.com
| Helsingborgs Dagblad is the largest local newspaper in Sweden. It has over a half of a million
published articles, and that archive is searchable.
Alexa rank: 31,658 Indexing a bit more than IPB 3,000,000 posts in a bit less than 3 minutes from scratch
(in no time, if flying using delta).
Alexa rank: 80,940 | |
brownbook.net
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heynielsen.com
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sortprice.com
| BrownBook, an open business directory, serves up 2.5 million docs “like a charm”.
Alexa rank: 46,008 Hey! Nielsen, a site for posting opinions about TV/movies/music/etc
is using Sphinx to search content created on the site (400,000 records and growing)
as well as a subset of the seeding Wikipedia subset.
Alexa rank: 286,637 Using Sphinx with over 25M records indexed daily, it powers the review section of the site.
Alexa rank: 25,700 | |
buyfinders.com
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identi.ca (new!)
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sumotorrent.com
| BuyFinders.com switched to Sphinx in order to provide fast searching
on more than 25 million products, updated daily. With Sphinx
installed, full text searches that took more than 30 seconds now
process in less than a second.
Alexa rank: 3,263,145 Laconica is an OpenMicroBlogging platform,
and it uses Sphinx to search profiles and messages. The instance at
identi.ca, the instance provided by
the makers of Laconica, currently searches over 2M messages.
Alexa rank: 76,948 SumoTorrent is among the happy users of Sphinx: with more than 700,000 torrents to search through
and estimated 500,000 daily searches, Sphinx helped to provide accurate results without killing MySQL server.
Alexa rank: 1,018 | |
buzzfeed.com
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imagetrail.net
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t-warez.com
| Powered by something, they say.
Alexa rank: 10,864 Imagetrail.net is a search engine for professional stock photography. It indexes mutliple agencies
and then combines duplicates by looking at the metadata and the thumbnails. It employed MySQL full text
search before but with database coming to 1 million images searches for even moderately frequent
words hit 3-6 seconds. They're back down to under 1 second now. Guess why.
Alexa rank: 649,210 T-Warez, forum.alavigne.com.br, and floppop.com
are a bunch of differently sized (100k to 600k posts) IPB boards hosted by EvilPuma -
now searched using only a fraction of a single commodity machine power.
Alexa rank: 85,926 | |
cellularmall.ca (new!)
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information.dk
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tailrank.com
| CellularMall is an online retailer of unlocked GSM cellphones and
cellular accessories, sphinxing the online product catalog.
Alexa rank: 8,735,910 Information, an independent daily newspaper from Denmark, indexes
180,000 articles stored in Drupal CMS using Sphinx.
Alexa rank: 111,556 | |
chatten.nl (new!)
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it.blogbabel.com
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teenspot.com
| Chatten, an online chat site in Dutch with 600K users and millions of pageviews,
ended up using Sphinx for all the searching except showing profile details.
Because of the speed, they say.
Alexa rank: 46,400 Italian blog search engine, using Sphinx for faceted search over about 3,000,000 posts.
Alexa rank: 57,535 TeenSpot, 1.9 million member teen community, somewhat (rumours have some 10+ times figures)
improved member search using Sphinx, even though its not always fulltext.
Alexa rank: 10,881 | |
chemsink.com (new!)
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joomla.org
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teilesuche24.de
| ChemSink uses Sphinx along with OpenBabel's fingerprint search to search through the million
compounds currently in the database, with 5-10 names/descriptors each.
Alexa rank: 1,728,282 Joomla, popular open-source content management system project, managed to
improve search
through their 700,000-post forum.
Alexa rank: 3,818 An online shop for car parts, indexing 250,000 parts with more than 5,000,000 MVA values attached to them,
heavily using filtering and group-by and getting excellent performance out of that.
Alexa rank: 67,981 | |
chiefmall.com
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kerneltrap.org
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thepiratebay.org
| Chiefmall is a search engine tool to look up contractors in the USA and to post jobs to them.
It currently indexes every contractor in California and in 8 other states, totaling
in about 420,000 documents, and using Sphinx to implement geo-searching over those.
A bit more of technical details is available here.
Alexa rank: 1,745,286 KernelTrap, a web community devoted to sharing the latest in kernel
development news, already rolled out Sphinx to search through 400K-message
mailing list archives (and is going to makes everything else searchable too).
Alexa rank: 43,261 The Pirate Bay and (forthcoming) SuprNova both moved to Sphinx recently.
Alexa rank: 117 | |
chow.com
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knigi-diski.ru
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topcompanyjobs.com
| Price comparison service for books and DVDs, with about 1 million rows in the database.
Alexa rank: 1,245,871 TopCompanyJobs.com is an international job search engine. Currently there are 370,000+ jobs
covering 150+ countries all over the world. Despite running on a (very) modest old server,
Sphinx performs well.
Alexa rank: 748,915 | |
citehealth.com
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ljseek.com
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torrentspy.com
| CiteHealth, a site which lists most if not all health centers
in the US (hospital, rehab center, dialysis center.. you name it)
is succesfully powered by Sphinx - and a natural example how
it can be run under Windows in production, too!
Alexa rank: 318,909 LJSeek, which specializes on searching through public LiveJournal entries,
indexes 220 million posts from 6 million users.
Alexa rank: 48,447 With a bit of hacking to integrate Sphinx into otherwise MS-based .NET solution,
TorrentSpy replaced 5 MS SQL boxes running fulltext search with 1 Sphinx box
(dual 3.2 GHz Xeon, for the curious). Well, 2 boxes, if we count that failover hotspare.
Alexa rank: 7,447 | |
code-crawler.com
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loudfeed.com
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tradebit.com
| This specialized engine has a live index of 20 million cheat codes.
Alexa rank: 185,387 Loud Feed, a start up SaaS company, provides tools for independent artists, labels and promotors
to sell, promote and license their music. Migrating from direct MySQL queries to Sphinx helped
to noticeably reduce search query time.
Alexa rank: 1,860,178 Tradebit handles 600K+ pageviews over 2,000,000 files which are sold by 6000 merchants
through their platform.
Alexa rank: 7,941 | |
craigslist.org (new!)
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mininova.org
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vxv.com
| craigslist provides local classifieds and forums for 450 cities worldwide - community
moderated, and largely free. Sphinx powers craigslist searches since late November, 2008.
With billions of pageviews per month, this is the busiest Sphinx instance we're aware of.
Alexa rank: 38 VXV, local Argentinian video hosting, provides search through its 35K videos collection
to over 1M unique monthly visitors.
Alexa rank: 18,742 | |
dailymotion.com
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mldb.org
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wasalive.com
| DailyMotion, a video-sharing site (which gets some traffic),
is the largest known SphinxSE deployment to date (with 40+ of MySQL+SphinxSE boxes).
Alexa rank: 64 The Music Lyrics Database, which carries over 220,000 song lyrics,
implements most of its functionality by using almost every single
Sphinx feature available (uses extended queries, live attribute updates,
main/delta index partitioning, you name it).
Alexa rank: 356,882 WASAlive scans more than 150K news providers and has a database of 8M news entries. Searchable instantly.
Alexa rank: 13,179 | |
digitalexpressions.nu
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mysql.com
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webofant.ch
| Digital Expressions with 1,500,000 documents in a 8-gig database.
Alexa rank: 694,993 MySQL AB, the makers of leading open-source database software,
uses Sphinx to search through their internal Eventum installation.
Alexa rank: 4,710 Webofant is a vertical search engine that indexes 13,000,000 documents crawled from Switzerland websites.
Alexa rank: 1,427,450 | |
dinpris.no
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naslovi.net
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who-sells-it.com
| DinPris AS, a leading shopping comparison service in Norway, and one of the
very first heavy SphinxSE users.
Alexa rank: 111,037 Naslovi, most popular news search engine and aggregation site in Serbia with 50.000+ daily visits
switched to Sphinx for its speed and the quality of results.
Alexa rank: 20,859 WhoSellsIt is a search engine for product cataloques and brochures.
Alexa rank: 36,316 | |
dir.bg
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neowin.net
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widepress.com
| Dir.Bg, the biggest Bulgarian portal, uses Sphinx to search through,
well, everything.
Alexa rank: 3,106 neowin.net, Windows news website, 7.0 million posts in the forum.
Alexa rank: 8,926 Widepress is an international news search engine which indexes more than 10 million news articles in 5 languages (French, English, German, Italian and Spanish).
Alexa rank: 3,006,114 | |
diskusjon.no
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netlog.com
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wikimapia.org
| Diskusjon.no, Norway's second largest discussion board with ~10 million posts,
120K memvers and 6-10K new posts daily is now also search-powered by Sphinx.
Alexa rank: 17,737 NetLog, a large social network site with over 35 million registered users, uses Sphinx
for pretty every kind of search imaginable - people, photo, clan, blog, event, music, and video searches.
12 million daily queries against 100+ GB indexes are handled by 2 quad-core search boxes.
Alexa rank: 66 WikiMapia, Google-vs-Wiki mashup which aims to describe the whole world,
uses Sphinx to search through 4,000,000+ user-submitted place descriptions.
Alexa rank: 1,614 | |
doktus.de
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news.speeple.com
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wikipik.org (new!)
| Doktus, a new Web 2.0 startup from Germany,
replaced Lucene with Sphinx
to search through millions of full text documents it allows its user to share – because of speed.
Alexa rank: 98,708 A multi-lingual news search engine, 25 million news articles and growing. Handled effortlessly by Sphinx.
Alexa rank: 612,583 Review site that focuses on letting users find quickly what is best for them,
WikiPik features customizable grid views showing ranked ratings, specs and user
contributed performance data. It's open licensed, multilingual, ad free.
And searchable.
Alexa rank: 1,753,863 | |
dpchallenge.com
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newworldencyclopedia.org
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willyfogg.com
| DPChallenge, a site dedicated to digital photography contests, searches through its 1.5 million post forum and 0.5 million image gallery.
Alexa rank: 26,180 NewWorldEncyclopedia.org, an effort to augment Wikipedia with values and
greater editorial oversight, replaces standard MediaWiki search with Sphinx plugin.
Alexa rank: 42,620 WillyFogg is an international product search engine. Sphinx helps to index 17,000,000+ products.
Alexa rank: 135,318 | |
easyautosales.com
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nnseek.com
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wordowl.com
| Using the engine to search over a million cars has allowed EasyAutoSales.com to shorten
what was 15-30 second delays down to milliseconds.
Alexa rank: 269,101 NNSeek add search capabilites to about 60 million Usenet posts.
Alexa rank: 90,817 Peter of Wordowl, a comic search engine, reports that Sphinx scales nicely in all directions,
running really well on his modest virtualised server.
Alexa rank: 4,852,167 | |
ecomvia.com
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nzbfile.com
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xltronic.com
| ecomVia, global multilanguage business finder for products, suppliers, requests, offers,
exhibitions scans about 1 million entries.
Alexa rank: 468,696 NZBFile is an Usenet search engine. After a good amount of testing, Sphinx is now used to index its database,
with updates happening every hour. It searches trough a selection of binary Usenet groups. 1.5-3 GB of new headers
are added to the database on a daily basis; total database size is kept around 200 GB.
Alexa rank: 2,594,341 Xltronic.com is powered by Sphinx to search through over 2 million forumposts.
A tagcloud for frequently used search strings is generated from Sphinx logs.
Alexa rank: 370,871 | |
elbo.ws
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openphrases.com
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yourbittorrent.com
| Elbo.ws, Music Blog Aggregator, reports discovering new Sphinx uses for its 400,000-post archive on a regular basis.
Alexa rank: 11,966 OpenPhrases.com, free SEO tool for keyword search and analysis, is indexing
its 30-million keywords database with Sphinx.
Alexa rank: 34,758 Reported as Sphinx-powered since somewhere-in-2007, and, to keep it short, happy.
Alexa rank: 4,193 | |
enbac.com (new!)
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opensubtitles.org
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ytmnd.com
| Enbac is a popular Vietnamese online auction site.
Alexa rank: 10,332 One of the biggest subtitles sites, containing more than 330,000 subtitles, is using Sphinx.
Alexa rank: 1,628 YTMND, a popular meme site (and a word somewhat easier to type than "juxtaposition"),
runs Sphinx.
Alexa rank: 4,531 | |
esciencenews.com
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pbnation.com
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zbozi.cz
| Eureka Science News is an automated science news aggregator.
Besides 'just' searching, Sphinx is used to create 'dictionary' pages about most topics on the site,
and generate stopwords lists for their custom clustering and categorization engine.
Alexa rank: 69,995 PbNation.com – the largest paintball forum, and largest sports forum of any kind – proudly uses Sphinx to power it's search.
Alexa rank: 12,627 Zbozi, a product search and price comparison website by Seznam.cz A.S.,
indexes 20M e-shop items from 6K e-shops in the Czech Republic. There are 1.8M incoming search
requests per day, peaking at 150K per hour. Additionally, there are 12M of so-called "short search" requests per day.
Alexa rank: 3,753 | |
export-japan.com
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phpbb.com
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| Export-Japan.com, a B2B site for companies interested in doing business with Japan,
indexes data from around 6000 Japanese companies with English websites with great success.
"The database was much more of a hassle to tune than Sphinx ever was", says Aaron.
Alexa rank: 330,539 phpBB, one of the leading forum software projects,
employs Sphinx
to search through its 2.6 million post community area.
Alexa rank: 17,350 | | |
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