But, we're talking about a search of a database.
On 10/18/04 5:59 PM, "Bill Conlon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? >> >> >> _______________________________________________________________________ >> _ >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf >> > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > ----------------------------------------- Roland Dumas Roberts Information Services 310 W. Bellevue Avenue San Mateo CA 94402 650-347-1373 415-412-9300 (cell) [EMAIL PROTECTED] SMS: http://new.servqual.com/html/sms.tml ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
