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Re: Web interface search results
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 24 Aug 1999 22:54:34 GMT
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In article <37c311a6.412616938@lugnet.com>, Todd Lehman
<lehman@javanet.com> writes

A syntax vis-à-vis URLs isn't yet defined, but how does this sound?--

<snip>

  http://www.lugnet.com/?q=jeremy+sproat&qt=-10519200&qs=2629800

4 months is about 10519200 seconds, and 1 month is about 2629800 seconds, so
that query would mean "prefer articles from about four months ago, with a
preferential spread of about a week or two either way."

For clipping absolute time ranges, how do qt0= and qt1= sound?--

  http://www.lugnet.com/?q=jeremy+sproat&qt0=-1814400&qt1=-0

with the sign of qt0-qt1 specifying the sort order, chronological or reverse
chronological.

<snip>
--Todd

Man, you *really* need to cut down on the coffee ;-)
--
Tony Priestman



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(...) A syntax vis-à-vis URLs isn't yet defined, but how does this sound?-- There's currently q= for the query string: (URL) qn= for subsequent pages of results: (URL) there are still 25 possibilities in the q*= namespace. How about qt= for the (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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