To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.admin.generalOpen lugnet.admin.general in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Administrative / General / 8627
    Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled) —David Eaton
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled) —Todd Lehman
   (...) 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)
 

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR