-----Original Message----- >From: Gilles Detillieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 1:02 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [htdig-dev] Recommending search results > > >According to "Williams, David A. (DAWilliams)": >> We wanted the ability to present recommended links in >> response to our most frequent searches and I didn't see >> any option like that existing or in development. So I >> tweaked some of the ht:Dig code a bit and tried to make >> my changes as minimal as possible to have the least >> impact on the rest of the code. >> >> ... >> >> If force_results_template is set, htsearch will add a >> template_patterns entry for the full recommended link >> url using the force_results_template as the template. >> >> For our purposes, that seems to do all we want. One enhancement I've >> thought of is to allow each recommended link to use it's own >> template by storing that as well in the force_results_db database. >> >> ... >> > >Thanks for the contribution. > >For allowing each recommended link to use its own template, you could >probably already do this with template_patterns. Only problem is the >template wouldn't go in the force_results_file, which I think is what >you had in mind. > >-- >Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil >Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766 >Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930 >
Thanks for all the hard work you and the other developers have done on htDig; we're planning to migrate from an unmanageable AltaVista Intranet installation to htDig as part of a migration to Linux based servers. In some quick testing, we're already impressed with htDig's crawling speed and the ranking of the results. Thanks also for the idea on the templates. But the features we're looking for with recommended links is to move them to top of the results but also to make them stand out from the "normal" results. So we only want the special recommended template to be used when the link really is the recommended result for a search (based on search terms). When that link is a "normal" result, we would want the "normal" template to be used. Also, I don't think I want to force htsearch to read templates for say our top 25 - 100 search terms when it will only need a small subset (only one in the current version) of those to display the matching recommended link. -David _______________________________________________ htdig-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev
