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Otis Gospodnetic commented on TIKA-488:
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I'm fine with whatever time period people think will work best for users.
Maybe that's just 3 months, maybe 6, maybe 12. I suppose it's safer to pick a
smaller value.
I do agree with Chris about picking a random provider and displaying its name
as selected in the pull-down menu if we don't detect a previously stored
cookie. It feels a little better than picking a random provider *after* the
person clicks on the search button. At the same time, showing something like
"select provider" may nudge the person to actually open up the pull-down and
explicitly look for and pick a provider (he/she will have to do this only once
every N months) - picking a random provider and displaying it as selected may
not get the person to look at what other providers are available.
I can see the benefits of both approaches, so I'm fine with either choice.
Plus, we can change the behaviour later if after some use we feel the other
approach might be better after all.
> Add alternative search provider on site
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>
> Key: TIKA-488
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-488
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: documentation
> Reporter: Alex Baranau
> Assignee: Chris A. Mattmann
> 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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