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Chris A. Mattmann commented on TIKA-488:
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bq. I want to be able to just type in my query and hit enter. The average user
shouldn't have to care about which provider is being used. See also
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/08/19.html
Heh, yeah. It's simple if there is one provider. The problem is though, the
randomness bugs me because it means the results aren't repeatable. As a user,
if do a search and then on some days (or in the case of this patch, on some
years ;) ) I see Lucid's skin and results and am taken to its website, bu then
on others I see Sematext's, with possibly different results, and an entirely
different skin, I'm kind of like huh?
I don't feel strongly about this though since I rarely do searches via our
search box, but at the very least if the choice is random it shouldn't be in
there for a year. If it is, that means that we really remove the randomness,
and then X% of our community will think that the search *always* go to Lucid,
and 100-X% will think that our search *always* goes to Sematext. So, at the
very least, that needs to be a more sensible number, I think.
Cheers,
Chris
> Add alternative search provider on site
> ---------------------------------------
>
> Key: TIKA-488
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-488
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: documentation
> Reporter: Alex Baranau
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: adding_alternative_search_provider.patch
>
>
> Add additional search provider (to existed Lucid Find) search-lucene.com.
> Initiated in discussion: http://www.search-lucene.com/m/uTJxE2kcRv1
> Requirements (copied from discussion):
> Jukka Zitting: "Ideally the search box would allow the user to choose which
> provider
> to use. Something like a cookie that remembers the user's selection
> would be nice. If the user doesn't make an explicit selection of the
> provider, then one should be selected randomly for the first search
> and remembered afterwards for consistency.
> It would be great if the required logic was implemented on the client
> side using javascript, as otherwise we'd need to start messing up with
> CGI scripts, etc."
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