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Re: Web interface search results
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 5 Jan 1999 20:43:08 GMT
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Jeremy Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com> writes:
> Would it be feasable to institute some kind of search language, to
> search for articles within a date range, within a certain newsgroup, or
> from a certain poster?
I'll need to make something that indexes all the articles by date/time stamp
and by poster, but it can be done. I assume you'd want to search by
someone's real-life name rather than their news-posting name/address, right?
-- because some people post from multiple addresses. OTOH, some people have
the same name as other people; maybe being able to search both ways is
needed.
Searching within a certain newsgroup, however, is already there (it's been
there from day 1 of the search function) -- check out:
http://www.lugnet.com/news/search/
For the "in Groups" field you can type things like
lugnet.*
market.*
loc.uk.*
robotics
(Note that it automatically prepends "lugnet." onto the front for you if you
omit it.)
> Also, the results page currently lists: something(?), the article
> number, and words found on each line. I would also like to be able to
> see the articles' subject lines and dates posted. You know, to make ego
> surfing easier. :-,
I didn't have a little library for news articles when I wrote the search
function the first time, so that's why it's so bare-bones. :) But let me
see what I can do now. The other filterings will take a more work, but this
is probably pretty straightforward -- I'll allocate a 1/2 hour for it today
-- seems like a pretty useful thing now that the searches are returning many
more results than they used to.
--Todd
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 | | Re: Web interface search results
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| (...) OK, give it a whirl now -- it's a lot friendlier, but unforunately it's also a *lot* slower -- because it's got to go fetch details about the article which aren't part of the raw words-to-article index. Generally, the more words you type (that (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Web interface search results
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| This is an append to a thread started about 8 months ago... (...) OK, Jeremy! What I did recently as a background task was rebuilt the news search database from scracth, this time including article timestamps and increased emphasis on the poster's (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Web interface search results
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| Todd, I have a couple of requests for the web interface search function. Would it be feasable to institute some kind of search language, to search for articles within a date range, within a certain newsgroup, or from a certain poster? Also, the (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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