Re: New search engine better, but still needs improvement

[Jason Pincin <chardros@linuxkb.org>]

I'll look into it today.

On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:24:57PM -0700, Aaron Turner wrote:
> 
> Marc, (are you on the linuxkb-list??)
> 
> search for "named" which is in the only existing article in the tree
> returns:
> 
> htdig 3.1.3 w/o any patches = zero hits
> htdig 3.1.3 w/ CGI param patch = 8 hits
> htdig 3.1.3 w/ CGI param & Marc's LinuxKB custom patch = 3 hits
> 
> So we're definately heading in the right direction, but we're still
> reporting too many hits.  The returned URL's are:
> 
> http://dev.linuxkb.org:81/kb/doc/render.php3?op=1.3.5.7&oid=7&type=6&as=5.1.4.3
> http://dev.linuxkb.org:81/kb/doc/render.php3?op=1.4.5.7&oid=7&type=6&as=5.1.4.3
> http://dev.linuxkb.org:81/kb/doc/render.php3?op=1.3.5.7&oid=7&type=6&as=6.2.4.3
> 
> I can figure out how htsesarch returned the first two results, but the 3rd
> is a mystery to me as I can't for the life for me duplicate that URL by
> hitting hyperlinks on the site.  Jason, do you think you can look in the
> DB and figure how how htdig is finding the 3rd hit (which turns out to be
> a valid URL)?
> 
> Anyways, Marc, it doesn't look like like your code is properly weeding out
> hits by the oid value.  Also, it's possible that the CGI param patch is
> conflicting with your edits (I applied the patches then overwrote the
> Display.[h|cc] with your version).  You can get the 3.1.3 patches from:
> 
> ftp://ftp.htdig.org/pub/htdig/contrib/other/
> 
> You'll want both the urlparam and extconv patches.
> 
> --
> Aaron Turner, Core Developer       http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~aturner/
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> 
> 

-- 
Jason
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