Re: Search syntax...
I've made two fixes to the search engine: - prevented duplicates from appearing in the results - case-insensitivity on our special field names in searches (date, from, subject, message) That tidies things up nicely. Jeff I'll say, Jeff! Yep, the dupes are gone. Interestingly, I've been doing lots of searches all evening and didn't notice when the change took place! If I capitalize 'From:' for an author search, I see on the results page that the system has corrected my search syntax to 'from:' rather than turning up 0 results. Thanks! Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [mdev...@eskimo.com] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- To unsubscribe, send mail to gossip-unsubscr...@jab.org.
Re: Search syntax...
Jeff, Thanks for the overview. I'm going to be working on a new web site for my group, so I may attempt something like that. Mike D. An advanced search form would basically have a bunch of fields like subject and date and from then string them together into a query syntax described below. Then redirect that query to the standard search URL. Implementation would most likely be in PHP. Hard part isn't the programming, it is designing an elegant suer friendly form that matches the query syntax. Actually that isn't so hard either. Hard part is making time to get it done. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to gossip-unsubscr...@jab.org.
Re: Search syntax...
An advanced search form would basically have a bunch of fields like subject and date and from then string them together into a query syntax described below. Then redirect that query to the standard search URL. Implementation would most likely be in PHP. Hard part isn't the programming, it is designing an elegant suer friendly form that matches the query syntax. Actually that isn't so hard either. Hard part is making time to get it done. http://www.mail-archive.com/faq.html#search .
Re: Search syntax...
Hi Mike. That's a very good point about the case sensitivity on the from and date directives. I'll see what I can do to fix that. Thank you, Jeff. I figure that while it's all fresh for me, the things I stumble on have the best chance of helping future users. Once I'm used to it all I'll have a harder time seeing possible improvements. I've noticed that in almost every search I do, each message turns up twice, either right next to each other or separated by one or two other results. For instance, a search I made that had 70 results represented 36 unique pages, once I'd been through them all in detail. I couldn't see a reason for the duplication. Any thoughts as to why? More results is better than less, most likely, and the nice contrast between visited and unvisited page links speeds review, but it's an interesting effect. It's great to hear you are enjoying the search engine. We use Lucene for the per-list search indexes; it's certainly a high quality open-source engine. Yes, it's a pretty piece of code. Having it not choke on really short terms is basically unique in what I've seen. I remember reading that the index file might be a third the size of the database? If so, it's a worthy investment. I think we're reaping the benefit of really cheap storage and a text-only format... I forget... what language(s) are Mhonarc and Lucene implemented in? Your sorting code? If I do any coding or tweaking, it'd be nice to be able to offer it up for use by others. Some kind of search form has to be do-able, if it's not already out there. Thank you, again. Excellent work. Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [mdev...@eskimo.com] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- To unsubscribe, send mail to gossip-unsubscr...@jab.org.
