Please do NOT cross post. -Michel On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Ausum wrote: > Zope is a great application server, the same as its soon to be released Content > Management Framework, because of its bet on Python, everybody say it. > Nevertheless, after reading the Directions Roadmap from DC, I was surprised that > a substantial improvement of the searching features of Zope, wasn't mentioned as > a major concern. > > For a new Zope enthusiast like me, it is a kind of addiction to arrange and > administer content while taking the learning curve. Almost everybody in this > list with a non-programming background might've experimented this. But when I > arrived to the search features of ZCatalog, I got mixed feelings. (Right now I'm > stuck on this OR indexes searching :) ) > > The fact is that - according to my strong belief - everybody uses more Google to > look for Zope Site's content than Zope's own Zcatalog's search engine. Moreover, > everybody uses more Google to look for everything, bypassing windows, doors, and > portals!. Why? Because it's terribly smart (not mentioning its 6,000 Linux > boxes, by the way), and because there's no need to follow the highly-engineered > information architecture of a web site, if there's a trustful shorcut to the > relevant content!. So, if I'd have to mention one big feature improvement to > Zope, I wouldn't doubt: "search engine". > > I just wanted to point on this subject. I know Zope isn't about spidering and > retrieving, but it should have "Greater Search Capabilities" as a title, within > that roadmap. :) > > > > Ausum > > > > p.d. Right now I'm quite interested at the technology of searching and finding > non structured content, in order to compose structured documents. For example, > the guys at Vignette (StoryServer) say that its customers don't need to keyword > anything in order to have a "related content" section. After the writer finishes > a story, (possibly while) a routine by Autonomy (www.autonomy.com) reads the > document and finds out what the document is about, and so it triggers a search > for related content within the site, without the need of intervention by the > writer. (For the curious, Autonomy has published a personal version of its > software. It's called Kenjin (www.kenjin.com) ). On the other hand, Fast, from > Norway, already have a nice multimedia search engine, from regular, > non-structured, spidered web pages. Can we do that "structuring the > unstructured" thing within Zope? > > > _______________________________________________ > Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) > _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )