More intent -- will Yahoo! catch up with this?

Interesting overview of new features.

The best thing since sliced bread?

Read a seemingly very biased article about Sphinx.

The author seems to resent the Apache Foundation in general and Lucene/Solr and Java in particular, so whatever else he says I will take with a grain of salt. But for people who think that text search as supported by RDBs is the only search you need it might open some eyes ..