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In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Jezek writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > 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.
>
> Very good! Although the new search doesn't return most recent articles
> first like it used to. Is that how it should work?
Not yet, no. See "to-do soon" section in previous post.
> Now I can't see most recent
> posts that contain the keyword I want to search for,
For now, if you don't mind URL mucking, you can manually append
&qs=<number>
to the URL and it will use that number (in seconds) as a time delta. For
example, to limit posts to the last 10 days, use
&qs=864000
Younger matches will tend toward the top and older matches will tend toward
the bottom. Anything older than 10 days (in the example above) will be
excluded.
> which makes the
> search pretty much useless if it returns thousands of results.
It's actually in the nature of search engines to generate thousands of
results. What's more important is the first page returned -- i.e., the
ranking. Typically one doesn't dig down past the first few, so you rarely
actually go visit all the thousands. If the results are ranked according
o some time criteria, there'll still be thousands of results, except for
super-restrictive time criteria.
--Todd
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