What aspects of Verity are they using above and beyond that provided by the Verity that ships with CFMX?
Nothing that I can see as of yet (nothing too fancy that is). I was not around during the development of their original website, but from what I understand the developers at the time claimed that Verity for CF4.01 (at the time) was not returning the desired results and was way too slow for their large-scale requirements. Then when they went to CF4.5 (Verity K2), the document limit dropped dramatically. This has changed over the years though. At the current time they are using less than 10k documents and 5k DB records. They plan for this to go up with the release of the new website.
Do you think they should just stick with Verity k2 in CFMX? And back to my eariler question: Does anyone know how to incorporate Verity Ultraseek 5.x into Farcry? (I'm really hoping for a checkbox solution rather then re-writing core code or extending anything. But I will if I have to).
However, we are intorducing some features in an upcoming release (likely 2.3) that will allow you to specify robots.txt similarly to how CSS objects are currently handled.
This would be great. Maybe I can get them using Farcry 2.3 before their expected launch date (currently esitmated sometime in November). Any ideas on a possible release date?
Depends on how you want to continue searching... maybe the spider license is all you need.
Being that Farcry is an all-database site (not talking about BLOBs of course) I'd think it to be wise to stick with DB crawling (like Farcry currently does with Verity K2), but if I don't find a solution in time I may have to consider using the old-fashioned webpage crawling.
This depends. FarCry can manage files in a number of ways. The default is to simply store them in a directory under the webroot. This directory would be accessible via a web spider. The file object in FarCry is just a representation of the physical file. We don;t store BLOBs or anything in the database for file management.
Overall, what is your suggestion for Verity? The less work for me the better. However, if it is wiser to take more time and have smarter code (in case the client has difficulties with the shortcut decisions in the future) I'd prefer to take that route.
-Jeff
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