I like your idea Lars, it's a good thing to reduce the amount of network traffic we need, and thousands of matches are no more useful than too few but involve less traffic so the overall benefit is greater.
Send the patch and I'll take a look... Thanks, Aubin On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:29:31AM -0700, Lars Eggert wrote: > Dirk Meyer wrote: > > > >We search for the label, split on the _. So we search for 'fellowship > >ext 1' The 1 gives us many results we don't want. But for other cases, > >we need the numbers (Babylon 5, or sequells). > > > >The big question now: how can we make it produce better results? What > >about: > > > >1. search like we search now, the list may be long > >2. if the number of return items is greater 10 remove all titles which > > don't include at least one _word_. So results without 'fellowship' > > or 'ext' (only containing 1) will be deleted. > >3. sort the results: > > a) Most popular searches to the top > > b) Inside two areas (popular and not so popular), search by number > > of matched words: each word in the title and not in the search > > string hitpoint--, each search word in the title hitpoint += 5. > > > >What do you think? > > I've made a small change locally that (1) throws out any non-word > characters from the name (\W) and (2) throws out any single-character > words from the name. This seems to produce much better matches. > > In the example above, it would search for "dvd fellowship ext" and frind > it, instead of searching for "dvd [fellowship ext d 1]". > > Lars > -- > Lars Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> USC Information Sciences Institute ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
