Hi,
Yandex engine also can highlight words and can be customized the
way you want. But I think you are right and the guide does not
need so complex and powerfull engine.
Vlad.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stas Bekman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 1:29 PM
> To: Vladislav Safronov
> Cc: 'mod_perl list'
> Subject: RE: search engine for the Guide
>
>
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Vladislav Safronov wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Try http://www.comptek.ru/yandex/YandexFree.html
> > search engine for web servers with highlighting searched words...
>
> Heh, it helps when you know Russian and have the font installed :)
> Oh, I see the English link:
> http://www.comptek.ru:8100/english/yandex/YandexFree.html
>
> Thanks Vladislav, but I think we are already quite happy with
> the two new
> engines provided by Randy and Vivek and the new version of the split
> guide, I really like it :). BTW, Randy's engine highlightes
> the words.
>
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Stas Bekman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 2:10 PM
> > > To: Matt Sergeant
> > > Cc: mod_perl list
> > > Subject: Re: search engine for the Guide
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Thu, 4 May 2000, Stas Bekman wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Wed, 3 May 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Wed, 3 May 2000, Stas Bekman wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Yeah, I've been thinking about it. There was one site
> > > that has offered me
> > > > > > > to provide a good search engine and they did, but the
> > > problem is that they
> > > > > > > didn't keep up with new releases, so people were
> > > searching the outdated
> > > > > > > version, which is quite bad -- I've removed the
> > > reference to it, after
> > > > > > > asking them to update their copy for a few months,
> > > with no results.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Can't we use WWW::Search - If I recall correctly some
> > > of the sites can be
> > > > > > restricted to a domain, so you could build a search
> > > interface pretty
> > > > > > easily.
> > > > >
> > > > > DESCRIPTION :
> > > > > This class is the parent for all access methods
> supported by the
> > > > > WWW::Search library. This library implements a Perl API
> > > to web-based
> > > > > search engines.
> > > > >
> > > > > It's not the search engine -- it's a Perl API to the
> > > search engines. We
> > > > > need a search engine not the API to it. Did I miss something?
> > > >
> > > > Yes. On some of the search engines (AltaVista springs to
> > > mind) you can
> > > > search for things on particular web sites, or even links to
> > > particular web
> > > > sites. So as long as AltaVista keeps its search contents up
> > > to date, you
> > > > can leverage their engine. IIRC either Randall or Lincoln did a
> > > > WebTechniques article about this a few months ago.
> > >
> > > Oh, I see.
> > >
> > > But I want to stress these 2 points:
> > >
> > > 1) Currently each chapter in the Guide is a huge document, so
> > > doing search
> > > and having a hit, doesn't really help as you still have
> to go thru the
> > > page to find the exact section that you want to read. So I
> > > think we want a
> > > search engine that's not working with the master version per
> > > se, but with
> > > a copy which has name anchors for each line and:
> > >
> > > a. can bring you to exact line with match
> > > b. have the keyword highlighted
> > >
> > > 2) Most of the search engines have problems with keywords
> including
> > > non-alpha chars, like if you search for Apache::Registry you
> > > will end up
> > > searching for Apache and Registry since :: is ignored.
> Now think about
> > > '$r->print' 'BEGIN {', '$@', etc. All these are must for the
> > > doc with many
> > > non-alpha characters which should be searched for.
> > >
> > > What do you think?
> > >
> > >
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