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Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Mon, 5 Feb 2001 01:41:53 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > > It's actually in the nature of search engines to generate thousands of
> > > results.
> >
> > If given thousands of results, most search engines have some advanced
> > options like sorting.
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> Well, they -are- sorted. They're always sorted -- always highest probability
> of relevance first, lowest last. Usually, the metric for relevance is a
> combination of non-temporal factors such as word frequencies, word
> proximities, and word orderings. I don't know of any search engine that
> doesn't sort (on some criteria) the matches it finds. But anyway, I think
> you meant sorting by time?
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> I wonder if a little link at the top to re-deploy the search taking recentness
> into account (or conversely, turning it off if it's on) would be useful?
Todd, this would be really useful. I'll often search for a recent post, only
remembering the poster's name and maybe one or two key-words, and that the
post was in the past few days. I don't need two year old messages nearly as
frequently. Could you change the display so that when results have the same
score more recent posts are displayed first? I think a score weighting for
recentness would be even more useful as part of the default setting --
obviously that would be up to you.
--DaveL
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