From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 27 12:56:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1898237B42C; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:56:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5RJtv116987; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:55:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g5RJtv625348; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:55:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5RJtsR25341; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:55:54 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3D1B6DCA.1C78D4B1@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:55:54 -0500 From: Eric Anderson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: John Baldwin , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Search engine feature requests References: <3D1B4EFF.6CE145A9@centtech.com> <20020627214120.A36410@lpt.ens.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 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 Yep.. I agree.. Anyone else have ideas? Eric Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology He who laughs last didn't get the joke. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message