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(...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) Pretty much... actually, I was thinking more along the lines of an advanced search form though: Search for: ___...___ (uses +'s and -'s as is) Search for text in subject line [] (checkbox) Posted by: ___...___ (uses +'s and -'s... or no (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) One thing which would generally make it pretty easy to find URLs is to index "http". When dealing with special characters, definitely treat "/" and "\" as word separators. Probably ":" also. (23 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) Do you index the name in "X-real-life-name"? One thought, index the special strings "from:" and "subject:". The the search: from: ffilz Should rank my posts highly due to proximity. Of course it would be better to index the real life name as (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | RE: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) I think a multi-field advanced search is the way to go...much easier to use, IMO--something like the DejaNews power search: (URL) actual search keywords are in one field, and then there are numerouse ways to limit the search. --Bram Bram (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) Ya, let's see...as it assembles the text to index, first it grabs X-Real-Life-Name:, then it grabs either Original-From: or From:, then Subject:, then Keywords:, then Summary:, and then finally the non-quoted and non-sig parts of the body. So, (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) Ya, something like that'd be good to slap on top after the base functionality. :-) Nobody wants to *have* to remember how all the squiggly and square brace thingums in a search box work. :-) (...) Ya, precisely. It was originally (summer of (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Article bit-flags (was: Re: News search function reactivated)
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(...) Oh, one other thing...planning ahead: Another potential application of article bit-flags is read/unread lists on a person-by-person basis via the web interface. I know this is something that people have been asking for for a long time. When (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Article bit-flags (was: Re: News search function reactivated)
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(...) Ooh ooh ooh... One thing I really really want is to be able to put messages into folders (if anyone knows of a decent newsreader which allows such - please let me know - it would be preferable that it do so without requiring me to store the (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) As an algorithmical guess, I think I'd probably attempt something a bit different... If someone enters: the I'd probably want to ignore it. But if they entered: the best design I might want to consider the 'the'. Dunno. I'd probably test an (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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(...) Oh -- actually, what search engines typically do on queries (and I just finally added this last week) is downvalue relatively common words and upvalue relatively uncommon words -- what's called "term ranking" or "term weighting." For example, (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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