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Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 2 Jan 2001 14:01:42 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
To do someday:

* Facilitate searching within specific threads.  This is a low-level data
list issue.

* Facilitate searching within arbitrary collections of groups (as opposed to
a single group or group hierarchy).  This is mostly a user-interface issue.

* Facilitate searching within search results (i.e., "search only within these
results below").

* Rework the text indexer so that it doesn't throw out "funny characters" in
words and then reindex the entire document corpus from scratch.  (Currently,
words like "won't" are converted to "wont" and words like "S@H" are ignored
entirely.)

* Filter out canceled articles from returned results.

Could I suggest some amendments to the "To do someday" list (for an
'advanced search' only)?

- Search by author
- Search by subject line contents
- Search by date range (or open-ended-- i.e. after date X or before date X)
- Search for articles containing a URL
- option to ONLY return the heads of threads
- And of course search by quoted string (i.e. +quack +"foo bar")

Just some wishful thinking...

DaveE



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  Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
 
(...) Sure! (...) These are mostly covered already due to the way the indexing works -- words closer to the beginning of a document are given higher weights than words occurring later in a document. When the indexer chews on a news article, it first (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
 
The LUGNET News search function is now re-enabled. I completely revamped the index data structures and list-merge algorithm and rewrote the core query engine in C. It's a much more solid implementation. Everyone's patience during the outage is much (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.announce) !! 

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