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Re: LUGNET search page request
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 13 May 1999 21:57:10 GMT
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jsproat@geocities.STOPSPAMcom
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, jsproat@geocities.com (Sproaticus) writes:
> > That's weird; I sometimes see results with just A or just B above results
> > with both A and B.  e.g., search for "Lego Maniac", and I see two results
> > with just "Lego", one with "Lego - Maniac", one with "Lego", etc.
> This is because of the way scoring works.  An article that has "LEGO Maniac"
> way down at the bottom is getting a lower score than an article that has
> lots of occurrences of "LEGO" or "Maniac" or a few of them near the top or
> in the subject line.

Another really cool thing would to be able to sort the results by date, or
at least by ng name / article number.

Cheers,
- jsproat

--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/
May the Force be with y'all.



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  Re: LUGNET search page request
 
(...) This is because of the way scoring works. An article that has "LEGO Maniac" way down at the bottom is getting a lower score than an article that has lots of occurrences of "LEGO" or "Maniac" or a few of them near the top or in the subject (...) (27 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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