Re: [htdig] Comparisons with SWISH++

[Geoff Hutchison]

At 10:36 AM +0100 10/29/99, David Adams wrote:
>SWISH-E has one facility which ht://Dig does not have and is very attractive
>for some specialist applications:  it allows a search which will _only_
>find pages which contain a given search word or words in a particular
>META tag.  Thus you can have, for example, pages which contain METAs such as:
>
>
>
>
>and then allow a search on Author or on Title, etc.

Just a FYI. This is on the feature list. In the development codebase, 
it is *possible* (i.e. the information is recorded), but there's 
currently no interface to restrict the search this way at present.

-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/


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Re: [htdig] Comparisons with SWISH++

[nets]

ht://Dig got better results on my survey.  People complained about 
SWISH and phrases, indexing, etc.  They do have a nice mailing list, 
though.

Info is at 

Avi

At 11:35 AM +0100 10/28/99, Philip Coates wrote:
>Does anyone know of any benchmark tests comparing performance and
>functionality of SWISH++ vs ht://Dig?
>
>I only ask because a client has mentioned SWISH++ as a possible alternative.
>I guess that from the Web stats (I have heard very little mention of SWISH++
>in the outside world) there is the suggestion that it's a tool of choice. I
>had a look at it and it didn't seem to be terribly well documented (yeah,
>source-code documentation, but I want to USE the product, not mess around
>inside its code...). Just wondered really whether anyone had any OBJECTIVE
>comments they could add, or perhaps knew of somewhere I could maybe find out
>some of this?
>
>Regards,
>
>Phil Coates.
>
>NoHo Digital
>Floor 2, Canberra House
>315-317 Regent St
>London W1R 7YB
>
>phone:  44(0)207 299 3425
>mobile:  44(0)7711 818 384
>email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http:www.noho.co.uk
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>
>
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Re: [htdig] Comparisons with SWISH++

[David Adams]

> 
> 
> Does anyone know of any benchmark tests comparing performance and
> functionality of SWISH++ vs ht://Dig?
> 
> I only ask because a client has mentioned SWISH++ as a possible alternative.
> I guess that from the Web stats (I have heard very little mention of SWISH++
> in the outside world) there is the suggestion that it's a tool of choice. I
> had a look at it and it didn't seem to be terribly well documented (yeah,
> source-code documentation, but I want to USE the product, not mess around
> inside its code...). Just wondered really whether anyone had any OBJECTIVE
> comments they could add, or perhaps knew of somewhere I could maybe find out
> some of this?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phil Coates.

I've no experience of SWISH++ but we have been using SWISH, and more
recently SWISH-E, at this site for a few years. 

The original SWISH was only capable of indexing filestore, and given a
top directory would index all files, descending into all subdirectories. 
We use SWISH-E in this mode, which is complementary to ht://Dig and most
other search engines which follow links. 

SWISH-E has one facility which ht://Dig does not have and is very attractive
for some specialist applications:  it allows a search which will _only_
find pages which contain a given search word or words in a particular
META tag.  Thus you can have, for example, pages which contain METAs such as:




and then allow a search on Author or on Title, etc.

Librarians and others doing systematic cataloguing find this a welcome
feature.

-- 
 
David J Adams
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Computing Services
University of Southampton


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[htdig] Comparisons with SWISH++

[Philip Coates]

Does anyone know of any benchmark tests comparing performance and
functionality of SWISH++ vs ht://Dig?

I only ask because a client has mentioned SWISH++ as a possible alternative.
I guess that from the Web stats (I have heard very little mention of SWISH++
in the outside world) there is the suggestion that it's a tool of choice. I
had a look at it and it didn't seem to be terribly well documented (yeah,
source-code documentation, but I want to USE the product, not mess around
inside its code...). Just wondered really whether anyone had any OBJECTIVE
comments they could add, or perhaps knew of somewhere I could maybe find out
some of this?

Regards,

Phil Coates.

NoHo Digital
Floor 2, Canberra House
315-317 Regent St
London W1R 7YB

phone:  44(0)207 299 3425
mobile:  44(0)7711 818 384
email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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