@Mike, Interesting article. Have ye modified large chunks of elgg core? How much does this software retail at?
Mark, we don't retail this software yet, it's rather a set of technologies and tools that we use when developing new projects. We didn't modify core much, it's mostly on top of the core. It comes for free, with use of our services. It's not yet mature enought to release as a standalone product. We're still tuning and tweaking a lot of the code with new projects. So far it took over 2500 dev hours :) It's possible we may release this technology as a standalone plugin/mod at some point, although due to complexity rather not in a close future.
We already proposed some of the modifications to core team though and it's possible they will appear in a new version of Elgg. Also, a plugin that does a very simple but effective tweak to search optimization is available here.
I would buy that plugin if you released it:) sounds fantastic.
The vasco_cache_metadata really interesting plugin. I will look through it. On our site, we will have to filter searches by longtiude and latitude, as in show results with latitude between x and y and longitude between a and b, as well as checking for matches in title and description with the seach term. I'm currently working on this and am adapting Evan's Sphinx plugin. With sphinx, you can filter by range of values. Sounds like we are using 2 different approaches to same problem:)
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