Re: [htdig-dev] Text within an anchor tag/hyperlink being indexed -- why?

[Jessica B. <jes...@ya...>]

Thanks Gilles and Geoff for your responses.  Indeed,
description_factor is the setting that I overlooked
confusing that with the meta_description_factor.

--- Gilles Detillieux <gr...@sc...>
wrote:
> According to Jessica Biola:
> > Actually, to append to this problem I'm running
> into,
> > it doesn't appear to be the text WITHIN the anchor
> tag
> > -- rather, there is text between the beginning <A>
> and
> > the ending </A> of the anchor tag that contains
> the
> > word "large".
> 
> Ah!  Well that certainly explains why I was unable
> to reproduce the
> problem earlier, based on your first message.  Yes,
> indexing text
> between the <A ...> and </A> tags as link
> description text for the
> referenced document is normal behaviour for htdig.
> 
> > The question still is, though, how do I completely
> > wipe out any reference to text between these tags
> as
> > relevant to the linked document?
> 
> As Geoff pointed out, description_factor is the one
> that controls the
> score that will be applied to this text. 
> Unfortunately, the best you
> can do is drop the score of these documents so they
> appear at the end
> of the results instead of at the start.  In the
> future, there will be
> some sort of option for removing matches with a 0 or
> small score.
> 
> > > There's a word, "large" on fruit.html.  "large"
> does
> > > NOT appear anywhere within pineapple.html,
> however,
> > > when I htsearch on the index, both documents
> show as
> > > a
> > > match.  In fact, the base_score is very high for
> the
> > > query "large" on the document pineapple.html.
> > > 
> > > If I index pineapple.html alone, the query
> "large"
> > > yields no results.  So there is definitely some
> type
> > > of relationship between the two documents and
> the
> > > word
> > > "large".  htdump revealed the relationship by
> > > outputting this:
> ...
> > > What configuration attribute must set to zero in
> > > order
> > > for that extra anchor text being indexed and
> > > factored
> > > into pineapple.html's word list?  I've basically
> > > tried
> > > setting all "documented" factors to zero
> (including
> > > backlink).
> > > 
> > > I used the latest htdig-3.2.0b4-092902 as well
> as a
> > > January 2002 release -- both behave the same
> way.
> 
> By the January 2002 release, do you mean the 3.1.6
> release of Jan 31/02,
> or one of the January snapshots of 3.2.0b4?  Either
> way, the behaviour
> of description_factor will be similar, the main
> difference being that
> with 3.1.x, you need to reindex after changing this
> factor, whereas with
> 3.2.x you don't.
> 
> -- 
> Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail:
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> Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:   
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> Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E
> 3J7  (Canada)
> 
> 
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