Re: Search engine improvements

[Jason Pincin <chardros@linuxkb.org>]

I am back now.  :)  IRC would be good, gimme 2 days or something so I can
finish up things outstanding on my plate.  

On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 06:01:43PM -0700, Aaron Turner wrote:
> 
> Whelp, Marc and I have been doing a lot with the search engine lately...
> 
> The first thing that everyone will probably notice is that the search
> results pages now have a correctly functioning header and footer.  So
> please take a look at the pages, run a few searches.  I recommend:
> 
> project
> broken
> within
> 
> Please give me some feedback on the look/feel/usability etc.  Jason- we're
> getting to the point where we need to figure out the Application search
> feature.  
> 
> Marc- I applied your patches to the search engine, and it seems to have a
> unexpected result: any dynamically generated page is not returned in a
> search.  Example:
> 
> http://dev.linuxkb.org:81/kb/doc/render.php3?op=1.3.5.7&oid=7&type=6&as=6.2.4.3
> 
> is a document with the word "broken" in it, but when you do a search on
> the word "broken" you won't get a hit.  If you want Marc, I'll get you an
> account on Vodka so you can hack, compile, and test at will.
> 
> Anyways, I'm still having to recode a lot of the drill down code to make
> it compatible with Jason's new and improved URL structure.  Hopefully I'll
> have it working again in a week or so.
> 
> Marcello, any ideas for a replacement for the stock htdig star icon for
> rating matches?  A penguin head or something?  I dunno, whatever you think
> would look good.
> 
> Well I'd write more but I've got to jam... we should probably have an IRC
> session soon (Jason when do you get back???).
> 
> --
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