From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 27 12:41:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D4C937B405; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:41:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id g5RJfKo06941 ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 21:41:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id VAA36672 ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 21:41:20 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 21:41:20 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: John Baldwin Cc: Eric Anderson , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Search engine feature requests Message-ID: <20020627214120.A36410@lpt.ens.fr> Mail-Followup-To: John Baldwin , Eric Anderson , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3D1B4EFF.6CE145A9@centtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 01:59:13PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Baldwin said on Jun 27, 2002 at 13:59:13: > > - Allow to sort by date and inverse date, as well as for more than one > page of results if possible. On that topic -- back when the search engine actually (mostly) worked, the "sort by date" option was misleading. If you took "sort by date" and "25 results", it would sort the 25 highest-scoring results of all time and sort those by date. So the only way to get near-useful results was to ask for 250 or more matches sorted by date. It would be nice if you could get the 25 (or n) most recent results containing the desired keywords, regardless of what the engine judges to be relevant. Thanks - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message