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  Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
 
(...) Oh -- actually, what search engines typically do on queries (and I just finally added this last week) is downvalue relatively common words and upvalue relatively uncommon words -- what's called "term ranking" or "term weighting." For example, (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Broken Link
 
(...) Ya. Set the followup-to field to lugnet.publish, I guess. --Todd (26 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Broken Link
 
Geocities changed their naming conventions. Any links to my website will need to be reset. Simply delete the tilda, "~", before Ed Boxer ("www.geocities.com/...ego.html". I would like to crosspost this to .announce , .town , and .castle. Is that (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
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  Re: 4.5 Volt straight track (p/n 3228), different versions ?
 
"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G6K5vr.IFK@lugnet.com... (...) posting (...) Good point. Follow-up posts don't bother me as much, since I use a newsreader, but they would muddy the .dat waters for web browsers. We (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
 
(...) As an algorithmical guess, I think I'd probably attempt something a bit different... If someone enters: the I'd probably want to ignore it. But if they entered: the best design I might want to consider the 'the'. Dunno. I'd probably test an (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
 
(...) Ya, exactly -- first name the URL components carefully and then put a user- friendly level on top of it. Best of both worlds. (...) Ah, I see. Yeah, that could be helpful in certain cases, if you're scouring tons of results! I've needed to (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
 
(...) Wow! So you have terms for the ampersand options in a URL? My standpoint on this would be to put everything in a form and kill 2 birds with 1 stone - not having to think of how to name URL terms (unless you enjoy doing that) and having the (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
 
(...) oops, doy! I didn't put in the propagation of that URL term. I don't consider it 100% "documented" yet (it's still subject to change without notice), but I still shouldn't have missed that. Thanks. I'll fix that. The reason it's subject to (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
 
(...) It works great! ... but the &qs doesn't carry over to the next page of results. So if I want to see more pages, I have to edit the querystring on each page. Since you already have the inner workings of this in place, it would be really easy to (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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