From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 22 0:46:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 604A037B5E4 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 00:45:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 17329 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2000 07:45:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in) (144.16.71.128) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 22 Apr 2000 07:45:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 2926 invoked by uid 211); 22 Apr 2000 07:45:31 -0000 Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 13:15:30 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: gerti-freebsdq@bitart.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: www.freebsd.org/search/search.html, sort by date? Message-ID: <20000422131529.A2901@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: gerti-freebsdq@bitart.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000422065703.28764.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000422065703.28764.qmail@camelot.bitart.com>; from gerti@bitart.com on Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 01:57:03AM -0500 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.32 i486 X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gerd Knops said on Apr 22, 2000 at 01:57:03: > Hi, > > The sort by date feature on the www.freebsd.org/search/search.html > page is gone since a while. Any specific reason? It still seems to > work fine when I modify the URL by hand, and I rather miss it. I don't know whether this is the reason, but there was a problem with sort-by-date which I'd pointed out on the -doc list a few months ago. http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=151495+0+archive/1999/freebsd-doc/19991114.freebsd-doc Basically, you couldn't get the 25 most recent matches with sort-by-date: if you picked "limit results to 25" and "sort by date", it would pick the 25 highest-scoring matches overall and sort those by date. So you may miss out recent messages and get higher-scoring but older messages. I'd suggested either changing the behaviour or changing the wording on the page to make it clear what it actually does. If you want to sort by date, try geocrawler (http://www.geocrawler.com) Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message