[htdig-dev] Score factors almost ignored

[Lachlan A. <lh...@us...>]

Greetings all,

There seems to be a problem with the relative weights given to=20
backlinks/date vs actual content of the documents in  htsearch.

The base score of documents I search for is typically 0.0001, while=20
the backlink factor is typically 2000.  Since these are added, the=20
weight given to the document itself is approximately zero!

Does anyone know how this came about?  It is easily fixed by=20
multiplying the base score by 1e6, but this would break the settings=20
of anyone who had set backlink_factor and date_factor to tiny values=20
to overcome the initial bug.

Suggestions?

Lachlan