Please have a look at the new and improved Search facility in FreewayTalk.
This new system is head, shoulders, entire torso, large office buildings above the old in terms of search quality, speed, and the usability of the results.
The only thing this system lacks is live updates. The developer of Sphinx has promised that feature for a future version, so it’s not impossible to add. But for the moment, the index is rebuilt every 15 minutes.
Thanks Walt, this is much more useful. As a further enhancement, would it be possible to have an “advanced” search with more targeted search fields? Such as by Subject, or Author, or Date?
Or am I missing something obvious about focused searches?
Thanks Walt, this is much more useful. As a further enhancement,
would it be possible to have an “advanced” search with more
targeted search fields? Such as by Subject, or Author, or Date?
Or am I missing something obvious about focused searches?
You’re welcome!
What would you like in the way of search by author? I am imagining a
very tall picking list of people, and then the only results would be
those by that person. One problem that immediately springs to mind is
that there are several people named Joe, and no requirement that
people have different names than one another.
Search by date, would that be a range, like “past two weeks” or “last
year”?
Subject is already a big part of the search engine. Matches are made
based on the subject and the body of the message, equally weighted.
If a search term occurs in both the subject and the body of a
message, it is twice as relevant as a message where that term only
occurs in one or the other.
Can’t you create a drop menu for author searching that’s pulled from the list of members with posts and then force people to put in their full name during sign-up to differentiate the many Joes out there - with a few pushes for folks to update their profiles?
On 19-Nov-07, at 12:26 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
On Nov 19, 2007, at 12:18 PM, chuckamuck wrote:
Thanks Walt, this is much more useful. As a further enhancement,
would it be possible to have an “advanced” search with more
targeted search fields? Such as by Subject, or Author, or Date?
Or am I missing something obvious about focused searches?
You’re welcome!
What would you like in the way of search by author? I am imagining a
very tall picking list of people, and then the only results would be
those by that person. One problem that immediately springs to mind is
that there are several people named Joe, and no requirement that
people have different names than one another.
Search by date, would that be a range, like “past two weeks” or “last
year”?
Subject is already a big part of the search engine. Matches are made
based on the subject and the body of the message, equally weighted.
If a search term occurs in both the subject and the body of a
message, it is twice as relevant as a message where that term only
occurs in one or the other.
What would you like in the way of search by author? I am imagining a
very tall picking list of people, and then the only results would be
those by that person. One problem that immediately springs to mind is
that there are several people named Joe, and no requirement that
people have different names than one another.
I think a popup list of members would work (nod to James) for the author search, but I could live with just referencing the member list before searching so I could put in whole member name.
Search by date, would that be a range, like “past two weeks” or “last
year”?
I was envisioning putting in a specific date, perhaps from a date picker, or just typing in by hand works too. This particular search criteria is not as important as author and subject.
Subject is already a big part of the search engine. Matches are made
based on the subject and the body of the message, equally weighted.
If a search term occurs in both the subject and the body of a
message, it is twice as relevant as a message where that term only
occurs in one or the other.
Understood. I was just thinking that searching by Subject would eliminate some miss-hits.
