As chance would have it, this was just discussed over on the lucene
user's list. See the thread..
Inverted search / Search on profilenetBest
Erick
On Jan 23, 2008 1:38 PM, George Everitt
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wrote:
Verity had a function called "profiler" which was esse
ssentially an
> inverted search engine. Instead of evaluating a single query at a
> time against a large corpus of documents, the profiler evaluated a
> single document at a time against a large number of queries. This
> kind of functionality is used for alert notifications, where a la
Verity had a function called "profiler" which was essentially an
inverted search engine. Instead of evaluating a single query at a
time against a large corpus of documents, the profiler evaluated a
single document at a time against a large number of queries. This
kind of fun