Roland,
You've heard this from me before on this list. Take a look at swish-e. You could use its built-in spider to index your site, and then use the built-in cgi-script to highlight your results. It's really a great piece of software.
Now if you take the swish-e approach, here's what I would do to solve this.
Dyanmically create metatags for the key parameters you want to search:
<meta name="vineyard" content="Chateau Lafite, Chateau, Lafite"> <meta name="varietal" content="Pinot Noir, Pinot, Noir"> etc.
Use witango to tokenize while creating the HTML pages for the various wines.
Then use swish-e's meta name search.
On Monday, October 18, 2004, at 05:39 PM, Roland Dumas wrote:
In search engines, when you submit a search string, the search engine first
tokenizes and then searches for each substring string separately and then
brings them together as your found set. So if I search for 1961 Chateau
Lafite, I'll get items with 1961, others with Chateau or Chateu Lafite, and
on top will be the found records with 1961 Chateau Lafite (I know, if you
put it in quotes, it forces it to find only the whole string. That part is
easy)
They will also rank a find of the full set of terms above ones with one or
two terms in the documents.
Questions:
What's the approach with witango that will enable the search of tokenized
strings.
Any ideas on how to do a crude ranking, such that the full term comes up on
top of the found set?
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