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Re: Web interface search results
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 6 Jan 1999 02:52:50 GMT
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lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) writes:
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> Jeremy Sproat writes:
> > 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. :-,
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> 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.
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 is, the more specific your search),
the faster the results come back, because the crummy matches can be
separated from the good matches much more easily.
So, for example, if you search for a very common single word "cool" or
"lego", it takes a loooong time. But if you search for a very uncommon
single word like "atlas", then it's lickety-split. Something a little more
complex like "the best place to get linux" takes longer, but it's still
tolerable.
I may have to tweak the thresholding on what gets chopped off the bottom
when weeding out crummy matches -- it's probably returning too many matches
in most cases. It erred on the side of "too many" before when the results
didn't give any real info except the ng name.
Lemme know what you think.
--Todd
p.s. If what you're looking for is something that scours all the ng's for
any mention of your name, I think that's probably left as a separate
special-purpose thingie which does it all automagically like an agent and
sends you incremental information. I'd love to offer that as a service but
it's a pretty low priority.
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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