On 10/19/05, vijay chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
No offence, but I wish people would stop using the "AJAX" acronym, Ajax is a dutch football team, the 'new' acronym is just another way of saying "look I can use _javascript_" i.e something people have been doing for years </rant> (sorry 'AJAX' is one of my pet annoyances) That aside it looks like a good app. :-)
Vijay
On 19/10/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:It has been a while since I posted something.
For your comments I add in "bbcsearch".
This system uses a cron based indexer of BBC RSS feeds to a database.
The index table is pretty slimline
and all common words within a story are removed to reduce database size
and improve search times. Currently ive only been indexing for a short
period so results would cover more "area" when the database fills.
Front end is powered by Ajax with the data provider producing an XML
feed of matched stories. Searches take
place two seconds after the last keypress as long as the string is
different than the previous.
The ranking algorithm is being worked on and has about 12 different
assesments on ranking.
Every search has a maximum number of 20 results which are updated within
the "ajax app" in real time.
I've tried this with various searches and its pretty accurate, usually
coming up with a story im interested in.
You should base the search on a target idea such as the recent
earthquakes as the predictive nature of the system
will produce the results you most want. It would be difficult to judge
the system just by typing words without
any preference for results.
Please dont hammer it too much, bandwidth maybe limited on this on :)
http://www.webcoding.co.uk/bbcsearch
Hope you enjoy.
James.
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