Björn wrote: > Possibly build up a list of links/pages/wiki the Find on the Web could > use to find what is being sought.
That wouldn't work the way you envision it. If someone wants to search the live web, then he should use Google or another search engine, because that is the purpose of search engines (and they take a lot of thought and work to build). > The list culd have a column with notes from users ranking the quality > of the info on the pages referred to. This is PageRank, and there's already a decent implementation out there :) Speaking more seriously, having J users rank pages won't help a searcher much, because e.g. I (Joe Schmoe) might identify a page as "a great J page, full of useful information", but it might not be on the topic or include the kind of information you (John Doe) are seeking. Or, let's say that Tom Allen's Schwarzchild pages don't get a high rank [1], because there are few people out there who know what a Schwarzschild is, and consequently few read or rank those pages. So those pages would be at the end of your proposed list. But what if now someone comes along who is searching for Schwarzschild implementation in J? For him, these pages should be at the very top of the list. Furthermore, since the J web world is so small, downloading the whole thing and doing full text search would be pretty effective [2], and you wouldn't even need the ranking table. Of course, this won't scale as the J web world grows, but as I said that's the purpose and value of dedicated search engines. But you do raise a good point: we need a centralized page on the J Wiki which includes links to all know J web resources, current or historical, precisely so that search engines can find them and index them for our benefit. I'm willing to maintain this page if the members of this Forum will help me with the legwork and send me as many non-Jsoftware J-related web links as they know about. If we do this right, then we could include an interface to Google (et al) in the J7 dev environment, and you'd have your embedded web search, but someone else (Google) would do all the hard work. -Dan [1] I hope Tom doesn't take offense; I just needed an example, and the Scharzchild pages were the first thing that stuck out at me on the RecentChanges wiki page. [2] Except for the whole synonym-searching/"chinese menu" problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
